This Full House

LaVaughn has survived the public housing projects, moved past a painful breakup, and grown into a more mature young woman. Now, with college a real possibility, she believes she is ready for whatever comes next. Her senior year brings discoveries that unsettle the small world she knows. Hoping to reunite people who ought to care for one another, she endangers the one goal she has pursued for as long as she can remember.

The novel asks hard questions: how do you know when you are doing the right thing, and what do you do when no silver lining can be found in a bad situation? It is the third book in Virginia Euwer Wolff's Make Lemonade trilogy, following True Believer.