A dashed dream leads to a rash decision in the fifth installment of
Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman cycle.
Mina Smiths lives to dance, so her scholarship to ballet camp seems like
a dream come true. She doesn't even mind being the only black girl in
the troupe--that is, until she is told she'll never be a classical
dancer. It's then that Mina begins to face some difficult truths about
race and identity and transfers her passion for dance to Tamer Shipp,
the summer minister for her church. The problem is, he's a grown man
with a family, but she can't stop wishing for more to their friendship
than simply pastor and parishioner.
Cynthia Voigt's incomparable mastery of character and community shines
forth in this stirring novel from her acclaimed Tillerman cycle.