New York: Doubleday, (2004). SIGNED first edition - African American author's first novel - third book - a coming-of-age story set in 1970s Brooklyn. One day Angela goes to school and returns home to find her mother gone and her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone. One reviewer noted that "Chambers paints a vivid image of the political and socio-economic climate of New York in the early 1980s. The most entertaining and heartfelt scenes of this novel come when Angela describes her parents' riveting admiration for Assata Shakur's escape from prison, or her father's sense of pure joy at meeting Muhammad Ali after performing at a PBS telethon to benefit the United Negro College Fund." SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp.