![]() 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. ![]() SummaryĪfter 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, she’s biracial in a population of mostly white students. So when I started it, there was a big, “aha” moment when I remembered the historical fiction aspect! Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. And then I promptly forgot what it was about. ![]() ![]() Mercury Boys is a book where I read the synopsis AGES ago. ![]()
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