Apparition

The book, although a fiction novel, is based loosely on the real story of an adopted baby girl from India, recalling some of her trials and tribulations growing up different. She was bullied and subject to racist comments during her elementary and middle school years, based on her skin color and some of her special mannerisms.

In the orphanage she was named "Mayavati," after a Hindu Goddess by the staff caring for her and the other orphans.

As a teenager, Mayavati encountered an apparition ...