Kate Tapert is determined to live her dream and attend art school even though it means leaving her mother and their trailer behind and walking into a whole new world in Detroit, Michigan. Telling her mother that she's arranged to live with her father, Kate leaves home and heads toward the man who she truly does not know. He is a world-reknowned artist who has suddenly left New York to hole up in a run down home in Detroit. He has no idea she is planning to live with him and when she arrives at his door he tells her to go home. There is no fatherly love visible in this man. What is visible is that he is ill... very ill.
Kate begins her new life at her art school and finds herself surrounded by other kids who live and breathe art and creativity. It's the perfect place for her which makes it all that much more difficult for her to decide to leave school and stay home to care for her father, love or no love, as he works feverishly to prepare for a gallery show in New York. This will be his grand finale in the art world and the question is will he show up as a dad at long last? He can reveal the beauty in ugliness with his paint and his canvas. Is that all there is for Kate to take away from this man?
208 pages
ISBN: 978-0061255458
