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One of my favorite YA authors has done it again. This inventive story about five teenagers forces us to SEE and experience their perceptions, struggles, and confusion with their world (OUR world). Books like this make me wish that more adults would read YA literature.
The characters seem strange at first - all referred to as labels, not names - and we yearn to puzzle out how they might connect with each other. Gradually, things fall into place for us, even before the connections make sense to th ...more
The characters seem strange at first - all referred to as labels, not names - and we yearn to puzzle out how they might connect with each other. Gradually, things fall into place for us, even before the connections make sense to th ...more
This book took on so many issues through the narration of the 5 estranged grandkids and their grandparents. The former are all basically raising themselves while the latter hide behind a wall of white privilege and emotional poverty. It's fascinating to see the characters interact with each other and with the other people in their lives. A.S. King clearly values teen voices and this comes shining through in her descriptions of each young adults's very individual reality. You also see many of the
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May 11, 2021
Sam
marked it as to-read
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Gozde Zengin
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