I enjoyed about learning that Jones’ mother had dyslexia and the woman behind the desk at Walker Jones helped her. When I first read the story, I was clueless about Edward saying “long before I learned to be ashamed of my mother”. I thought he was going to hate his mom for doing something bad. I got hints of Edward living in a Black neighborhood and being Black himself. The magazine Ebony was mentioned when Edward went to the school door. When Edward said a bad word, his mom slapped him across the face. That was another sign of him being Black as well. A suggestion for the author is to not be confusing at the beginning.