Kit's whole family, does, actually, with a focus on his sister Carmelita, which is nice. Sadly, it's at the same time as the books go rapidly downhill.

But Angela Johnson ... *swoons*. Woman has never written a non-awesome book. Have you read Toning the Sweep? Three generations of American black women, teenager, mother, and grandmother, come together in a life history mixed-generational book of gorgeousness.