The art of secrets [electronic resource] / James Klise.
A Fire Destroys... A Treasure Appears... A Crime Unfolds... When Saba Khan's apartment burns in a mysterious fire, possibly a hate crime, her Chicago high school rallies around her. Her family moves rent-free into a luxury apartment, Saba's Facebook page explodes and she starts (secretly) dating a popular boy. Then, a quirky piece of art donated to a school fund-raising effort for the Khans is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Saba's life turns upside down again. Should Saba's family have all that money? Or should it go to the students who found the art? Or to the school? And just what caused that fire? Greed, jealousy and suspicion create an increasingly tangled web as students and teachers alike debate who should get the money and begin to point fingers and make accusations. The true story of the fire that sets events in motion and what happens afterward gradually comes together in an innovative narrative made up of journal entries, interviews, articles, letters, text messages and other documents.
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Record details
- ISBN: 9781616204037
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014.
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General Note: | Original document: Book. |
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Subject: | Fund raising > Fiction. Outsider art > Fiction. Pakistani Americans > Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction. |