But she’d better figure it out soon, because someone is killing off that older generation of shadowshapers, one by one. Suddenly, Sierra is entangled in a parallel realm of spirits imported to Brooklyn by immigrant artists known as shadowshapers-a group that includes Grandpa Lazaro, who’s unable to explain what he’s gotten her into. Her summer mural project turns supernatural when she notices that a painting on the side of a nearby building, which memorializes an old friend of her ailing grandfather’s, is shedding tears that weren’t there the previous day. A young-adult novel of unusual sophistication, Shadowshaper chronicles the coming-of-age of a singular hero: Sierra Santiago, a bold teenage artist living with her Afro-Boricua extended family in a brownstone. The streets-and especially the street art-of Brooklyn burst with life in the propulsive first volume of Daniel José Older’s Shadowshaper Cypher series.
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