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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Harris, Kai.     Subjects     Abandoned children -- Fiction.     Girls, Black -- Fiction.     Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.     Sisters -- Fiction.     Grandfathers -- Fiction.     Grandparent and child -- Fiction.     Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Families, Black -- Fiction.     Nineteen nineties -- Fiction.     Coming of age -- Fiction.     Lansing (Mich.) -- Fiction.     Michigan -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Harris, Kai.       by title:      What the fireflies k...       by call number:      LP FICTION HAR     Search the Web     Harris, Kai.     Abandoned children -- Fiction.     Girls, Black -- Fiction.     Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.     Sisters -- Fiction.     Grandfathers -- Fiction.     Grandparent and child -- Fiction.     Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.     Families, Black -- Fiction.     Nineteen nineties -- Fiction.     Coming of age -- Fiction.     Lansing (Mich.) -- Fiction.     Michigan -- Fiction.       MARC Display

What the fireflies knew : a novel / Kai Harris. by Harris, Kai. Random House Large Print, 2022. Call #: LP FICTION HAR Subjects Abandoned children -- Fiction.   Girls, Black -- Fiction.   Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.   Sisters -- Fiction.   Grandfathers -- Fiction.   Grandparent and child -- Fiction.   Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.   Families, Black -- Fiction.   Nineteen nineties -- Fiction.   Coming of age -- Fiction.   Lansing (Mich.) -- Fiction.   Michigan -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780593556580 (large print pbk.) Description:  370 p. (large print) ; 23 cm. Summary:  "In the vein of Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a coming-of-age novel told by almost-eleven-year-old Kenyatta Bernice (KB), as she and her sister try to make sense of their new life with their estranged grandfather in the wake of their father's death and their mother's disappearance. An ode to Black girlhood and adolescence as seen through KB's eyes, What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing, Michigan. Over the course of a single sweltering summer, KB attempts to navigate a world that has turned upside down. Her father has been labeled a fiend. Her mother's smile no longer reaches her eyes. Her sister, once her best friend, now feels like a stranger. Her grandfather is grumpy and silent. The white kids who live across the street are friendly, but only sometimes. And they're all keeping secrets. As KB vacillates between resentment, abandonment, and loneliness, she is forced to carve out a different identity for herself and find her own voice. A dazzling and moving novel about family, identity, and race, What the Fireflies Knew poignantly reveals that heartbreaking but necessary component of growing up -- the realization that loved ones can be flawed and that the perfect family we all dream of looks different up close."--Publisher. Genre:  Bildungsromans. Black fiction. First novel. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Bedford Public Library Adult Large Print Fiction LP FICTION HAR Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Large Print Fiction LP FICTION HAR Adult books Checked out Sep 20, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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