Gr. 9-12 ***STARRED REVIEW*** Fourteen-year-old Dylan, autistic and synesthetic, is the result of the union between her French mother (whom she adored) and her Guyanese father (who left them). Following her mother’s unexpected death, Dylan grieves and grapples with who she really is and how she believes her father stole her whiteness. She also dreams of going to Paris, where she believes her skin color wouldn’t matter the way it does in Australia. But life has other plans for the deep-thinking girl who hears music in colors, knows people’s secret memories by their eyes, and talks about the magic of water … [Read More]
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