The Broken Bridge

By Philip Pullman

Subjects: Wales, Identity, fiction, Family problems, Family life, fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept), Dysfunctional families, Fathers and daughters, Wales, fiction, Teenage girls, Identity, Blacks, fiction, Fathers and sons, fiction, Fiction, Identity (Psychology) in youth, Children's fiction, Artists, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Blacks, Identity (Psychology), Artists

Description: Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.