I was very impressed with this book, not only because of her achievements in her own right, but also because of her fluency in putting across what it is like to be in a black minority. I am in the process of writing a review of this for local mag and would cite:
"[going to a high profile school] gave me a glimpse of something that had previously been invisible - the apparatus of privilege and connection, what seemed like a network of half-hidden ladders and guide ropes that lay suspended overhead ready to connect some but not all of us to the sky."
Her absence of bitterness is impressive, as is her determination.
I really enjoyed this book.