Moving and evocative, Disappearing Act is a YA memoir-in-verse
following author Jiordan Castle's coming of age as her family reckons
with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment.
It was the summer before high school,
the beginning of everything.
But also an end.
Jiordan's family was never quite like everyone else's, with her father's
mood swings, her mother's attempts at normalcy, and her two older
sisters with a different last name. But on the surface, they fit in.
Until the day the FBI came knocking on the door.
After that, her father's mood plunged to a dangerous new low. After
that, there was an investigation into his business and a sentencing in
court. Soon Jiordan's father would have to leave home, and her family
would change forever.
Reckoning with the aftershocks of her father's incarceration, Jiordan
had to navigate friends who couldn't quite understand what she was going
through, along with the highs and lows of first love. Under it all was
the question: If Jiordan's father was gone, why did she feel like the
one who was disappearing?
Recounting her own experiences as a teenager, poet Jiordan Castle has
created a searing and evocative young adult true-story-in-verse about
the challenge to be free when a parent is behind bars.