Used book – The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, Heidi Durrow

At the age of eleven, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a Black American G.I. father, sees her life turned upside down on a sad summer day. A tragedy, of which she is the sole survivor, snatches her family away. Taken in by her grandmother, a woman as loving as she is uncompromising, Rachel soon discovers the difficulty of being biracial in a society that places too much importance on skin color. But the true nature of the tragedy that engulfs Rachel will be revealed to her by Brick, a young neighbor who witnessed her fall and who, despite himself, becomes the keeper of the only fragment of truth capable of freeing the girl from the shadows of her past. This modern and poetic coming-of-age novel describes the soaring of an unforgettable character, a being both too gifted and too deprived. This beautiful story of resilience defies all determinisms and proves that one can recover from anything, provided there was love, once upon a time.