"Scout's honor," Juli agreed, crossing her heart.
The name “Dee” most famously belongs to the narrator’s older sister in Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning short story, (1973). Dee—who renames herself “Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo”—is brilliant, confrontational, and hungry for a heritage she previously rejected. She returns home from college “too full” of new ideologies: Black nationalism, African authenticity, and a romanticized view of her family’s quilts as museum pieces rather than lived history. essentially dee and juli too full