![]() Robbie helps Sierra understand her latent powers, which were gifted to her by an unknown benefactor. This spiritual magic is a way to keep ancestors close and also a means of rallying them to protect the living. Shadowshapers, she comes to learn, can channel spirits of the dead into drawings and murals. ![]() Sierra can see this because she, like her Haitian friend Robbie who painted Papa Acevedo, is a shadowshaper. ![]() While creating a mural on the side of a building abandoned by local developers, she notices that a nearby mural of the deceased Papa Acevedo is fading - and crying. Sierra Santiago is an Afro-Boricua teen with a penchant for painting. Daniel José Older’s novel Shadowshaper, released in 2015, is an urban fantasy embedded with real-world commentary about the nature of art and the lived experiences of race. ![]()
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