Disappearing Act, Jiordan Castle
Disappearing Act, Jiordan Castle
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Disappearing Act
A True Story

Author: Jiordan Castle

Narrator: Jiordan Castle

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/27/2024


Synopsis

It was the summer before high school,

the beginning of everything.

But also an end.

Jiordan's family was never quite like everyone else's, with her father's mood swings, her mother's attempts at normalcy, and her two older sisters with a different last name. But on the surface, they fit in. Until the day the FBI came knocking on the door.

After that, her father's mood plunged to a dangerous new low. After that, there was an investigation into his business and a sentencing in court. Soon Jiordan's father would have to leave home, and her family would change forever.

Reckoning with the aftershocks of her father's incarceration, Jiordan had to navigate friends who couldn't quite understand what she was going through, along with the highs and lows of first love. Under it all was the question: If Jiordan's father was gone, why did she feel like the one who was disappearing?

Recounting her own experiences as a teenager, poet Jiordan Castle has created a searing and evocative young adult true-story-in-verse about the challenge to be free when a parent is behind bars.

About Jiordan Castle

Jiordan Castle is the author of Disappearing Act, a true story. Her writing has appeared in HuffPost, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She is a contributor to the LA-based food and culture magazine Compound Butter. Originally from New York, she received her BA in English from the University of San Francisco and her MFA in poetry from Hunter College. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and their dog.


Reviews

Goodreads review by David

Jiordan's coming-of-age memoir, with her father's imprisonment whirlpooling at the centre of her emotional life, thoroughly captures the resiliency a lot of us are forced to find in an imperfect family when we lack the experience and tools to do so. Poetry is the perfect way in; as she makes her way......more

"the only person I can count on to be in the deep end with me is me" A coming-of-age memoir that covers all the complicated, messy and ugly feelings that come with having a loved one in incarceration. It's raw, it's honest and the author doesn't hold back in sharing her deepest thoughts and emotions –......more

Goodreads review by Kathryn

Unlike anything I’ve read before, Disappearing Act is a quick read that packs a big emotional punch.......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

I'm so glad I read this book! What a story. Told in a way that I don't normally read but love - verse. Well done. Brave storytelling. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC. Five stars.......more