![]() ![]() In her author’s note, Barron describes how this book has risen from her explorations of the traditions of her West African ancestors.Ī truly #BlackGirlMagic, cloudy-day, curl-up kind of book. The astonishing series of subsequent revelations leaves readers agog, eager to know how Maya and her pals will use their powers to heal the veil and save their mostly Black and brown neighborhood. ![]() Not only that, but Frankie’s newly found gift came from her late mother, who is also an orisha, and Eli is part orisha, too. ![]() What Maya, Frankie, Eli, and readers find out from Maya’s mother is that Papa’s real identity is Elegguá, the most powerful of the West African orishas, guardian of the veil between this world and those of the darkbringers and other forces. Maya, a comic-book–loving, anemic 12-year-old Black girl, is suffering through situational math when she experiences a sudden, time-stopped moment when “the color bled from the world like someone was sucking it away through a straw.” That is not the only strange incident: Maya has an all-too-real dream of a man with skin “the color of the moon” and “pale violet eyes” who has the same color-sucking ability her structural engineer papa literally disappears in front of her and when she and her friends Frankie and Eli find themselves fighting shape-shifting darkbringers, Frankie discovers her own light-shooting skills. Maya knows her father’s stories aren’t real-are they? ![]()
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