Britain is typically viewed as a place that struggles more with class than race, but for immigrants, those two categories are inextricable. Adah and Francis’s Blackness precludes their getting affordable housing, as well as dictates how they are generally treated. It initially pushes them into a lower class, though Adah’s tenacity and intelligence help propel the family forward a bit. Adah struggles with the conflation of race and class, for she cannot fathom how she has to inhabit the same spaces as people who would have been servants of hers back in Nigeria.