What makes Older’s story exceptional is the way Sierra belongs in her world, grounded in family, friends, and an awareness of both history and change. What follows is a well-executed plot of the exceptional child with a mysterious history standing forth to save her world, aided byĪ similarly gifted romantic interest. Abruptly, her stroke-disoriented grandfather urges her to hurry the project-and then she is attacked by what looks like a walking corpse. She loves art, and painting a mural on an abandoned building is the focus of her summer. Sierra’s roots in her neighborhood are three generations deep, but no part of the city is alien to her. In Older’s ( Half-Resurrection Blues) YA debut, Sierra Santiago is from Bedford-Stuyvesant, parties in Park Slope, and crashes Columbia University with ease.
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