(S)Kin"Our new home with its thick walls and locked doors wants me to stay trapped in my skin but I am fury and flame." Fifteen year old Marisol is the daughter of a soucouyant. Every new moon, she sheds her skin like the many women before her, shifting into a fireball witch who must fly into the night and slowly sip from the lives of others to sustain her own. But Brooklyn is no place for fireball witches with all its bright lights, shut windows, and bolt

continue to adapt to their present and their unrelenting past

But there's no rest for the weary when his grandmother is abducted by a mysterious villain out for revenge

and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide

mid-length body

through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman

for Nate--pure revenge

For his granddaughter

as well as their power to change the world

And between the sister she thought she knew and the one who seems to have many hidden

and he's Spider Man

She dreams of a bigger life

She spends her days teaching high school history and her nights reading tea leaves and tending to her conjure garden