Lisa McElaney

Rose Gray

Fiction

“It is easy to overlook—or forget—what incisive powers of observation come with being a teenager, but Tansy Chapman offers a coming-of-age story about an ‘old soul’ in the making. Her heroine’s gifts of curiosity, compassion, and forgiveness materialize and deepen, page after page, even though the world she inhabits has turned itself upside down. Rose Gray is a beautifully rendered tale about the emergence of a genuine ‘self’ that refuses to be interrupted by dreams deferred.”