"In her memorable first-person voice, filled with the minute observations of a young artist, Cyan sketches out with believable detail the beautiful setting, the unspoken family tension, and her fragile recovery of hope after loss."--Booklist "Readers will be compelled by these wrought family relations, and the mystery will keep them moving forward. A beautiful novel."--Childrens Literature "Artful writing and beautiful imagery combine to create a study of the various portraits of grief."--Kirkus "Cyan's present-tense narration is fluid, restrained, and perceptive, and it's balanced effectively between telling the story and conveying her grief and frustration. . . . There's a smoothness and clarity here that recall Zibby Oneal or Frances O'Roark Dowell, and fans of those writers as well as readers drawn by family dramas with a bit of mystery will relish a sojourn on the island with Cyan."--Bulletin --