Sweet Potato Jones has been on the move her entire life-toting her siblings from one abandoned train car to the next, following her father's broken dreams, and trying not to hope for more. But when they land a spot at The Home, a Christian shelter that offers families just twenty weeks before the clock runs out, Sweet Potato dares to believe this might be different.

Still, she's not expecting Soul Food.

Not the kind you eat-though collards and hoecakes come with the deal-but the kind that changes everything. The kind served up in a purpled-up diner, run by a faith-filled woman named Mrs. Sunshine who believes in second chances and sees something in Sweet Potato that even she can't see. It's here that Sweet Potato meets Ray Patterson, a boy with eyes full of truth and a heart that sings the gospel even in silence.

But twenty weeks isn't a lot of time to learn how to stop running-from trauma, from anger, from God Himself. And as old wounds rise and her family's future hangs in the balance, Sweet Potato has to decide: will she risk believing in something as wild as grace?

A raw and redemptive coming-of-age novel about chosen family, first love, and our God who sees us in the hard places.