Book #21: THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY by Heidi Durrow

Inspired by a real event, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky is the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survior of a family tradegy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop.

With her strick African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black neighborhood where her physical apprearance brings unwanted attention. As she grows up in the 1980s, she learns to swallow overwhelming grief and careful hide all sorrows and pain inside the "blue bottle."

A good read that confronts society's ideas of race, class, and beauty.