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De\u2019Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their 5-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia\u2014a move motivated by circumstance rather than choice. De\u2019Andrea is heartbroken to leave her comfortable life in the Black oasis of Atlanta, and between her mother-in-law\u2019s Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter starting kindergarten, and the overwhelming whiteness of Rolling Hills, she finds herself struggling to adjust to her new community. To ease the transition, her therapist proposes a challenge: make a white girlfriend.When Rebecca Myland learns about her new neighbors, the Whitmans, she's thrilled. As chair of the Parent Diversity Committee at her daughters\u2019 school, she\u2019s championed racial diversity in the community\u2014and what could be better than a brand-new Black family? It\u2019s serendipitous when her daughter, Isabella, and Nina become best friends on the first day of kindergarten. Now, Rebecca can put everything she\u2019s learned about antiracism into practice\u2014especially those oh-so-informative social media posts. And finally, the Parent Diversity Committee will have some\u2026 well, diversity. Following her therapist\u2019s suggestion, De\u2019Andrea reluctantly joins Rebecca\u2019s committee. The painfully earnest white woman is so overly eager it makes De\u2019Andrea wonder if Rebecca\u2019s therapist told her to make a Black friend! But when Rolling Hill\u2019s rising racial sentiments bring the two women together in common cause, they find it isn\u2019t the only thing they have in common.

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