Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.
Chronicles the life of African-American sculptor Augusta Savage, who overcame a series of obstacles in order to become a premier female sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance.
Presents a brief illustrated biography of sculptor Selma Burke, covering her work as a nurse and desire from a young age to become an artist, her time as a teacher at the Harlem Art Center in New York, establishment of the Selma Burke School of Sculpture, and many other achievements.
In the Yoruba village of Oyo in 1440, Kai has the opportunity of realizing her dream of becoming a sculptor, but at the price of separtion from her life in Ife and the loss of her new-found closeness to her sister.