by Marilyn Nelson
Hennepin County Library audiobook 2 discs
read by the author
genre: realistic fiction
I could NOT listen to this! Usually when a work is read by the author, I *love* it! But this was so irritating! Nelson is narrating the story from a teenage boy's perspective . . . and she did so in a painfully slow voice as though sounding things out for a kindergartener. I simply couldn't listen to it! The story itself was interesting, but I'll have to get it in print.
Here's the back cover blurb: "Connor's grandmother leaves his dad a letter when she dies, and the letter's confession shakes their tight-knit Italian American family. The man who raised Dad is not his birth father. But the only clues to this birth father's identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot's wings. And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate - a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke. What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other."
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