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168 pp.
| Avon
| August, 1998
|
TradeISBN 0-380-97553-X$$14.00
(3)
YA
Sienna's feelings of isolation and estrangement from her parents echo movingly through the story of how she comes to know a more vulnerable side of her famous sculptor father after he contracts brain cancer. The convincing first-person narrative also deals with both characters' fear of expressing themselves fully in their artwork versus creating work that is innocuous and, in the father's case, critically acclaimed.