The poet Nikki Grimes begins, "Life is a story / you write day by day. / Kamala's begins with a name / that means "lotus flower." / See how her beautiful smile / opens wide, like petals / fanning across the water's surface? / But you don't see the flower's roots. Her roots. / They grow deep, deep, deep down. / Let me show you." Combining verse from Grimes with the colorful illustrations of Laura Freeman, the book tells young people about the "roots" of the US Senator and vice-presidential nominee, about her Indian mother and Jamaican father, moving to Canada, and returning to the United States for college and a career in public service.
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