This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson
and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes
of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity
Connor's grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the
letter's confession shakes their tight-knit Italian-American family: The
man who raised Dad is not his birth father.
But the only clues to this birth father's identity are a class ring and
a pair of pilot's wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to
investigate--a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is
hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his
father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other.