Debut author Medema brings the Alaskan milieu to life, including showing how Kodiak, who has Tlingit heritage, is seen as “trouble” after a few missteps in a way Delia, who’s white, might not be. She’s always felt different from her family, and she can’t forgive her mother’s infidelity and secrecy and reaching out to her biological father only adds complications. But when the DNA test shows that the man who raised her isn’t her father, Delia is shattered. Her project partner is Kodiak Jones, her childhood friend and crush whose slam poetry sings. Delia will differentiate her assignment by writing in verse, although she rarely shows her lines to anyone. She’s planning to mimic her older sister’s: get a DNA test and write about the results. Delia, a high school senior in Alaska, has achieved early acceptance to Columbia, so she’s not worried about the big senior project.
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