

Upholding the spirit of adventure and the value of found family, Ancrum ramps up the tension through the increasingly discomforting night, creating a layered reworking. Ancrum Darling Gebundenes Buch Jetzt bewerten Auf die Merkliste Bewerten Teilen Produkterinnerung Weitere Ausgabe: eBook, ePUB A teen girl finds herself lost on a dangerous adventure in this YA thriller by the acclaimed author of The Wicker King and The Weight of the Stars-reimagining Peter Pan for todays world. Lagoon nightclub, and the relationship between Tink and her girlfriend Ominotago, who is Ojibwe, is well wrought and tender. Ancrum injects a healthy dose of intersectionality into the original’s structure: the group attends a drag performance at the Mermaid’s The route to the party is fraught with danger-the group evades police raids led by Detective Hook, and Wendy begins to realize that the night, and Peter, may conceal a dark agenda. When charismatic Peter Pan, who’s white, climbs through her broken window, she accepts his invitation to a party, sneaking out to join Peter and a group of disenfranchised teens, including “very short and very angry looking” Tinkerbelle, who’s bisexual and blonde.

Wendy Darling, 17 and Black, chafes against her overprotective parents’ restrictions during her first week in the city where her mother was raised. In this contemporary Peter Pan reimagining, Ancrum ( The Weight of the Stars) reframes the fantasy as an after-hoursĪdventure set in the shadows of Chicago.
