A Little Piece of Sky: A Novel

A poignant, powerful debut that combines the deep emotion of The House on Mango Street with uniquely creative storytelling, painting a story of survival and healing.

Unfolding in a series of vignettes, A
Little Piece of Sky introduces an endearing new novelist and a truly unforgettable
main character–Song Byrd, a young girl who keenly reports on the world around her. She is African American in a mostly
Hispanic neighborhood and the unwanted product of an adulterous affair. While she is poor
in the material sense, Song is extraordinarily rich in spirit and it is that inner strength which saves her.

In piercingly insightful
prose, Nicole Bailey-Williams takes readers on Song’s journey through life as she
struggles with feeling like an outsider and intense guilt over her mother’s murder. Behind
it all, places of pure joy, dreaming the hurt away, and glorious little pieces
of sky shine through. Song’s tales–and Bailey-Williams’s narrative gift–are truly
words to treasure.