β Scribed by Kat Zhang
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In the tradition of The Thing About Jellyfish and When You Reach Me, acclaimed author Kat Zhang offers a luminous and heartbreaking novel about a girl who is convinced that an upcoming solar eclipse will bring back her dead mother.
One of the happiest memories twelve-year-old Sophia Wallace has is of her tenth birthday. Her mother made her a cake that yearβand not a cake from a boxed-mix, but from scratch. She remembers the way the frosting tasted, the way the pink sugar roses dissolved on her tongue.
This memory, and a scant few others like it, is all Sophia has of her mother, so she keeps them close. She keeps them secret, too. Because as paltry as these memories are, she shouldn't have them at all.
The truth is, Sophia Wallace's mother died when she was six years old. But that isn't how she remembers it. Not always.
Sophia has never told anyone about her unusual memoriesβsnapshots of a past that never happened. But everything...
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