Kyrah doesn't think of her life as chapters. She thinks of it as a trilogy — and the first book is closing. What shaped it: a mother who saw everything before it arrived, schools where she could count the faces that looked like hers, and a confidence she can trace back to one person's belief in her.

A Caribbean American Gen Z woman on navigating an Ivy League education, creating community, finding her advocacy, and the belief system that carried her to the threshold of what comes next.