Rapunzella, Or, Don't Touch My Hair

A genre-bending YA that weaves together inner-city life
and a wildly dangerous fairytale universe.
Rapunzella is imprisoned in an enchanted forest made of her
own Afro and the might of the evil King Charming seems unstoppable.
But is it? Can Rapunzella use her power to change the
future?


You're fifteen, you spend your time at school and at Val's hair
salon with Baker, Val's son, who has eyes that are like falling
off a cliff into space. The salon is a space of safety, but also
of possibility and dreams... Dreams of hair so rich and alive that
it grow upwards and outwards into a wild landscape, becomes trees
and leaves, and houses birds and butterflies and all the secret
creatures that belong in such a forest.


Is there a future where such possibility and power is more than
just a dream?