As they brush against the supernatural they realize that the story they’ve been told about their past is unraveling and the world that returned them seemingly unharmed ten years ago, might just be calling them home.Īs their communities were being destroyed, groups of Jewish women and teenage girls across Poland began transforming Jewish youth groups into resistance factions. They aren’t the only ones looking for her though. But when Grey goes missing without a trace, leaving behind bizarre clues as to what might have happened, Iris and Vivi are left to trace her last few days. People find them disturbingly intoxicating, unbearably beautiful, and inexplicably dangerous.īut now, ten years later, seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow is doing all she can to fit in and graduate high school on time–something her two famously glamourous globe-trotting older sisters, Grey and Vivi, never managed to do.
They have insatiable appetites yet never gain weight. Then, their blue eyes slowly turned black. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. With Alex now in a race against time, death, and circumstances, he and Isaiah must grapple with their past, their future, and what it means to be a young Black man in America in the present. Alex feels these visions are a curse, distracting him, making him anxious and unable to live an ordinary life.Īnd when Alex touches a photo that gives him a vision of his brother’s imminent death, everything changes. When he touches Talia, he sees them at the precipice of breaking up, and that terrifies him. When he touches his car, he sees it years from now, totaled and underwater. When he touches a scoop, he has a vision of him using it to scoop ice cream. It’s hard to for him to be present when every time he touches an object or person, Alex sees into its future. But as much as Alex tries, he often comes up short. He tries to be the best employee he can be at the local ice cream shop the best boyfriend he can be to his amazing girlfriend, Talia the best protector he can be over his little brother, Isaiah.
Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus is trying his best.
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