Disappearing Act
A True Story
Farrar Straus & Giroux · Print & ebook · August 15, 2023
Moving and evocative, Disappearing Act is a YA true-story-in-verse following author Jiordan Castle's coming of age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment.
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- Who it’s for
- Jiordan Castle recounts adolescence amid family upheaval in a layered true story told through verse.
- Genres
- Novels in Verse for Teens, YA Poetry, Mental Illness for Teens
- Published
- Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 15, 2023
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Moving and evocative, Disappearing Act is a YA true-story-in-verse following author Jiordan Castle's coming of age as her family reckons with the aftershocks of her father's imprisonment. It was the summer before high school, the beginning of everything. But also an end. Jiordan’s family was never quite like everyone else’s, with her father’s mood swings, her mother’s attempts at normalcy, and her two older sisters with a different last name. But on the surface, they fit in.
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Until the day the FBI came knocking on the door. After that, her father’s mood plunged to a dangerous new low. After that, there was an investigation into his business and a sentencing in court. Soon Jiordan’s father would have to leave home, and her family would change forever. Reckoning with the aftershocks of her father’s incarceration, Jiordan had to navigate friends who couldn't quite understand what she was going through, along with the highs and lows of first love. Under it all was the question: If Jiordan’s father was gone, why did she feel like the one who was disappearing? Recounting her own experiences as a teenager, poet Jiordan Castle has created a searing and evocative young adult true-story-in-verse about the challenge to be free when a parent is behind bars.
After the Upheaval
Jiordan Castle recounts adolescence amid family upheaval in a layered true story told through verse.
Come here for
- A coming-of-age account shaped by family upheaval and incarceration
- The compressed, evocative pull of a story told in verse
Expect
- First love and the strain of being misunderstood
- A teenager’s reckoning with a parent’s imprisonment
Where it sits
| Novels in Verse for Teens | 62% |
|---|---|
| Mental Illness for Teens | 42% |
| YA Poetry | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Parents
- Depression & Mental Health for Teens
- Self-Esteem & Independence for Teens
- Authors
- Jiordan Castle
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Published
- August 15, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Parents