![]() ![]() Somehow, the book connects to Cinnamon’s family history. Cinnamon’s only source of comfort is a magical book left to her by Sekou, “The Chronicles of the Wanderer.” This book chronicles the adventures of a Dahomean warrior woman, Kehinde, and the alien Wanderer who accompanies her, in the 1800s. Her mother’s family are mostly judgmental and not helpful, her father’s family initially too far away to be of help. In 1987, teenager Cinnamon Jones’ life is upended by multiple tragedies and their aftermaths: her father Raven Cooper is shot and falls into a coma, her older half-brother Sekou dies, and her mother Opal struggles to hold herself together and care for her daughter. ![]() In Will Do Magic for Small Change, Andrea Hairston weaves strands of story across two centuries into a beautiful, occasionally heartbreaking but ultimately joyful, tapestry about the transformative powers of love and art and about how we break each other and help each other heal. ![]()
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