In this heartbreaking multimedia debut—filled with drawings, poems, and journal entries—author Jenny Laden draws on her own experience to create a story of grief and transcendence.
Danielle Silver is a Philadelphia high school senior at the dawn of the ’90s. Ever since her parents split up, she has known her father was gay, but she never expected to be hit with the bombshell that he is HIV positive. As he sickens, and AIDS starts to claim the lives of his friends, Danielle searches for silver linings while trying to balance paralyzing fear, grief, her social life, and schoolwork—capturing all the feelings as adolescence and some hard facts collide.
The book is loosely based on Laden's own experience at Barnard after her dad received an AIDS diagnosis in the early 90s. A true Columbia collaboration, Laden's book was agented by Kevin O'Connor CC '92 and acquired by Daniel Ehrenhaft CC '93.
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