By Diane McKinney-Whetstone
In one West Philadelphia local, households come jointly in party of solidarity and togetherness. Their block events supply a union that serves as a backdrop for locating the reality approximately themselves and the folk they believe they know.
Best neighbors Neet and Shay have trusted one another for many in their lives. despite the fact that, their friendship can be demonstrated while Neet turns into pregnant through one of many nook boys and Shay arranges an abortion that is going extraordinarily wrong.
To Shay's horror, Neet is left not able to undergo kids and embraces her mother's esoteric but occasionally impractical non secular ideals as punishment for her sins.
Meanwhile, Shay is left to fight together with her personal starting to be adulthood, the grief of wasting a loved friendship, and the disintegration of her mom and dad' marriage. the 2 ladies finally decide upon their very own separate paths. Leaving Cecil Street invokes these issues which are most crucial -- kinfolk, friendship, and love.
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