From the Stonewall and Lambda Book Award-winning author of HURRICANE CHILD comes the National Book Award-winning novel about loss, grief, and finding the courage to discover one\u2019s identity.<\/p>\r\n
Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly after his sudden death, shedding what King considers was his first skin to live down by the bayou in their small Louisiana town. Khalid visits King in his dreams, but tells him not to tell anyone that he\u2019s become a dragonfly, and so King keeps the secret to himself as he watches his parents evolve through their grief, and works through his own building anger and sadness at having lost his brother. To make matters worse, just days before his death, Khalid overheard King\u2019s best friend Sandy telling King a secret\u2014that he thinks he might be gay\u2014so Khalid made King end their friendship. But when King finds Sandy hiding in a tent in his backyard, he agrees to help Sandy escape from his abusive father, and the two begin an adventure as they build their own private paradise down by the bayou and amongst the dragonflies. THE THING ABOUT JELLYFISH meets THE STARS BENEATH OUR FEET.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the Stonewall and Lambda Book Award-winning author of HURRICANE CHILD comes the National Book Award-winning novel about loss, grief, and finding the courage to discover one\u2019s identity. Twelve-year-old Kingston James is sure his brother Khalid has turned into a dragonfly after his sudden death, shedding what King considers was his first skin to live […]","protected":false},"author":[131],"featured_media":1993,"parent":239,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"content_book_template.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[132,130,120,73,135,136],"rights_available":[121,122,123,124],"literary_agent":[141],"publication_year":[230],"class_list":["post-253","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-grade","tag-coming-of-age","tag-diverse","tag-family","tag-lgbtqia","tag-literary","tag-magical-realism","rights_available-audio","rights_available-dramatic","rights_available-translation","rights_available-uk","author-kacen-callender","literary_agent-beth-phelan","publication_year-230"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3120,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions\/3120"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"rights_available","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rights_available?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"literary_agent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/literary_agent?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"publication_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_year?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}