Delulu

The story they wrote for you is not the only story. You get to write your own.

Diamond Jasper was four years old when she watched her father kill her mother. She spent the next twenty-three years trying to become someone else.

From the gray dirt of her grandmother's dead yard to Miami's art world, she learned a different lesson from a teacher named Daisy Glassgow:

What happened to you is not who you are.
Act as if.
Curate or be curated.

Those tenets became her Law of Delusion—the belief that she could write her own story, even when the world insisted on writing it for her. She made dresses from bedsheets. She embroidered names meant to hurt her into silk. She became a designer, a teacher, a woman who builds things from nothing.

But becoming someone new means leaving someone behind. And Diamond must decide how much of herself she is willing to show.