Allison Ali

Fifteen-year old Julia lives in New York with her conservative parents, Peter and Ana Kilmere. Each summer she spends visiting her grandmother who lives on a Caribbean island thirty-seven miles wide. This summer had been like past ones, except for her last night on the island. Her grandmother gave her an unusual and exotic gift. entered with an intricately designed box with a sloped lid. It looked otherworldly. was ending up like all the others, except on her last night, her grandmother gives her an exotic ancestral gift from India – a writing box. But Julia lives in the digital age, she imagines its only use would be for keepsakes and trinkets.But when an accident, an announcement an...