Third-person chronological relation of events are inter-spliced with newspaper clippings and interviews about prom night and Maddie’s past, creating a haunting uncertainty while lambasting a media that is more willing to exploit moments of racial conflict than interrogate them. Jackson kills it with this nod to Stephen King’s Carrie, drawing clever and clear connections from our nation’s tragic history (and present) to the horror genre.
Tensions rise among residents and classmates unhappy with Wendy’s efforts just as Maddie begins to understand her powers, a combustible situation that comes to a head on prom night. Meanwhile, Wendy, Jules’ tender-hearted but clueless friend decides to plan the town’s first integrated prom. Her life becomes a living hell after that, as she is tormented by the overprivileged, racist, she-devil incarnate Jules at school and her sadistic father at home, but Maddie’s pain leads her to the shocking discovery that she is telekinetic. Light-skinned and with straightened hair, high schooler Maddie Washington has been passing as white at the (often violent) demand of her abusive white father, but when she’s caught in the rain, her voluminous hair reveals her long-held secret: she’s Black. one that will cost them all their lives.It’s 2014, yet residents of former sundown town Springville, Georgia, continue to cling to a number of racist traditions, including segregated proms. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life.īut some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet.
She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington.Īfter a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Maddy did it.Īn outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. When Springville residents-at least the ones still alive-are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D.
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