In this sci-fi psychological dark/horror novelette, Lindsay, an African American girl "wins" an extraterrestrial in a national contest only to find her family's life upended.
It's the late 1970s and all Lindsay Fields has ever wanted was to have a best friend-someone to share all her likes and dislikes, who would truly understand her. When she enters a national diplomatic competition to host Nussia, a teenage alien from a different planet-and wins-thirteen-year-old Lindsay is ecstatic. Now, the Fields' are not only the first ever humans to host a Fike alien, they are also the first African-American family to do so. But Nussia is not quite what Lindsay expected. And Lindsay's family, home, and entire life changes because of Nussia's arrival… but not in the way she imagined.
