Summary

Chapter 1 opens with a series of words that indicate the sounds Isabella Badia Thornton makes when she plays the piano. She has spent so much time at the piano that she can make any sound imaginable. She compares the bass notes to a celebration and the treble notes to tears. She plays very well, and feels it would be great if “the rest of my life came together like some kind of magical musical symphony” (2).

In Chapter 2, Isabella recounts that she got a toy piano as a gift when she turned three. She was not interested in any of her other gifts. Her parents, Isaiah and Nicole, had to put it out of her reach to make her stop playing it. She got slightly better pianos after that, but always toys. When she was seven, her parents got her “A real piano keyboard...