16 - The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow, 264 pages, Algonquin Books, 2010
WHY I PICKED IT: Recommended by Gregg Easterbrook (ESPN Sportswriter)
ELAPSED TIME: 5 days
RATING: Very Good
This is a sad story... of a daughter of an American Serviceman and Danish mother, who is living with her paternal grandmother after a tragedy takes her siblings and mother, and her father disappears. It's about her learning about what it is to be considered black rather than the combination of her parents, and about moving on from a tragedy because it's the only thing that you can do.
Although it is a very good story, with important ideas being raised, I'm not sure I appreciate Durrow's voice as an author.
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