Set in the small Romanian town of Krania, thirteen-year-old Alex Manescu's world changes the summer a traveling Roma caravan rolls through — the Christo clan, with their music, their stories, and a way of life unlike anything he's known.
Through Alex's eyes, and those of his father Octavian — an artist and longtime friend of the Roma — readers step into a world where culture, tradition, and human connection run deeper than the boundaries that divide them.
A richly layered historical fiction novel for middle grade and older readers that asks what it means to truly know someone from a different world than your own.
 
Ages 12 and up | Historical Fiction | Cultural Fiction