This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity 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.
What Connor discovers will lead him and his father to a new, richer understanding of race, identity, and each other..
And so Connor takes it upon himself to investigate--a pursuit that becomes even more pressing when Dad is hospitalized after a stroke.
But the only clues to this birth father\'s identity are a class ring and a pair of pilot\'s wings.
This riveting novel in verse, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson and Toni Morrison, explores American history and race through the eyes of a teenage boy embracing his newfound identity 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
