However, though she suspects that her maternal grandmother was a Leopard Person, her mother remains unwilling to tell Sunny anything about her family history. As Sunny spends the next few months attending both Lamb (nonmagical) and Leopard school, she becomes happier and increasingly secure in who she is. Sunny learns that she’s a Leopard free agent, and that her albinism is what makes her a powerful Leopard Person: it means that she already has one foot in the wilderness (the spirit world), so she should be able to make herself invisible, manipulate time, and receive premonitions from beings in the spirit world. She meets Orlu and Chichi the next day after school, and they soon introduce her to Anatov, who inducts Sunny into Leopard (magical) society. Sunny’s life changes the day she sees a vision of the end of the world in a candle flame. In addition to making her so sensitive to the sun that she can’t play soccer, her favorite sport, Sunny’s albinism also makes her a target for bullying. However, Sunny doesn’t feel secure in her identity as a Black Nigerian, as she was born in New York and is albino. Sunny, the protagonist of the novel, is a 12-year-old Nigerian girl.
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