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DISAPPEARING ACT
A True Story
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. 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?
DISAPPEARING ACT blends technology, emotional intelligence, and social justice issues to create a coming-of-age story that shares DNA with Laurie Halse Andeson's Shout and Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X.
Jiordan Castle is the author of All His Breakable Things. Her work has appeared in Hobart, HuffPost, New Ohio Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to the LA-based food and culture magazine Compound Butter. Originally from New York, she has an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College.
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. 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?
DISAPPEARING ACT blends technology, emotional intelligence, and social justice issues to create a coming-of-age story that shares DNA with Laurie Halse Andeson's Shout and Elizabeth Acevedo's The Poet X.
Jiordan Castle is the author of All His Breakable Things. Her work has appeared in Hobart, HuffPost, New Ohio Review, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to the LA-based food and culture magazine Compound Butter. Originally from New York, she has an MFA in Poetry from Hunter College.
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Published 2023-08-15 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers |
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Published 2023-08-15 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers |