11-year-old Heather is arrestingly beautiful. She is also unusually perceptive. Her mother is dark vermillion. Her aunt coral blue. Her uncle yellow and black like the dead cat in the ditch after the rain. She speaks aloud to her dead father, the moon, the sun, and the stars. And the river. On the surface, Heather is a story about an extraordinary young girl and her aunt. But at another level it is about change, and beautiful things, frightening things, dark shadows that exist within us that are sometimes impossible to overcome. Through Heather’s eyes, you will see the world differently. Through her aunt’s eyes, you will see an incredible child who is very, very different from you and I but no less beautiful for all that. John Talisker is the author of Gatc'hh'en's Rite, a novel about love, time, and meaning.