When It All Syncs Up

"After she’s rejected for a ballet apprenticeship, Ghanaian Canadian 16-year-old Aisha Bimi returns to Toronto from her majority-white western Canada ballet academy. With her caring stockbroker father in Tokyo and her estranged former professional ballerina mother forbidden from contacting her, Aisha struggles with an emerging dissociative disorder and relies on imaginary relationships with celebrated Black ballerinas, including Michaela DePrince, for reassurance. In Toronto, she wins a place at Korean Canadian best friend Neil’s public arts high school, where Aisha develops a possible romance with musician Ollie, of Algerian heritage, and cultivates an unexpected affinity for modern dance." Publishers Weekly