Saskia shares her revelation with some classmates, hoping to find connection and friendship among strangers. The hitch: she can see him only in her dreams. She is somehow able to visit the man in the portrait: Robert Cornelius, a brilliant young inventor from the nineteenth century. One day while visiting her only friend at her part-time library job, Saskia encounters a vial of liquid mercury, then touches an old daguerreotype-the precursor of the modern-day photograph-and makes a startling discovery. After her life is upended by divorce and a cross-country move, 16-year-old Saskia Brown feels like an outsider at her new school-not only is she a transplant, but she's also biracial in a population of mostly white students.
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