Super Short Summary

In Alice Hoffman's Green Angel, fifteen-year-old Green loses her family in a catastrophic city fire and becomes half-blind from embers. Overwhelmed by grief, she transforms into "Ash," hardening herself against emotion and tattooing her body. As she gradually reconnects with the remnants of her former life and a boy named Diamond, she begins to heal and reclaim her identity as Green. The story includes themes of intense grief and loss.