The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

A moving novel about a biracial girl navigating identity, race, family tragedy, and belonging as she tries to understand who she is and where she fits in the world.

Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a Black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.

Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light br...