Ekina was made in America with African parts, but unfortunately this has never made him indestructible. Precocious at ten years old, Ekina knows that physical strength wont help him fend off his overbearing parents, cruel teachers, and one-sided romance. It wont help him save his baby sister from their traditionally-misogynist father or protect his little brother from their mothers expectations either, although it mightve helped him master an adagioif he hadnt quit ballet class. Nigerian boys dont wear pointe shoes, and anyway, who does he think he isan American? So You Think Youre American is a novel about growing up in that world between foreign and native cultures. Poignant, funny, and sometimes hopelessly heartbreaking, So You Think Youre American will evoke profound emotions, tears or laughter, in even the most stoic of readers.
What is the world to Jordan Vianney? Keira de Luna. Her laughter when for once it isnt fake, her love of written words, the way her hair falls over her face when shes trying to look into your eyes. That was the Jordan from freshman year. Sixteen-year-old Jordans had a serious reality checkfrom finding pills in Keiras pockets, to arguments in the school parking lot and too many broken promises, along with 1,001 different warning signs. Worst of all, everyone keeps advising him to break up with her, as if thats what you do when the person you love needs you the most. Theyre wrong, arent they? Theyre all so wrong. Thats what sixteen-year-old Jordan thinks. Seventeen-year-old Jordan isnt so sure anymore. Told in the form of therapy sessions, phone calls, journal entries, and flashbacks, Generation Wasted combines substance abuse with the emotional turbulence of adolescence and shoves addiction into the spotlight by focusing on those who may be suffering even more than the addict: mothers, fathers, siblings, and in this case, boyfriends.
Ekina was made in America with African parts, but unfortunately this has never made him indestructible. Precocious at ten years old, Ekina knows that physical strength wont help him fend off his overbearing parents, cruel teachers, and one-sided romance. It wont help him save his baby sister from their traditionally-misogynist father or protect his little brother from their mothers expectations either, although it mightve helped him master an adagioif he hadnt quit ballet class. Nigerian boys dont wear pointe shoes, and anyway, who does he think he isan American? So You Think Youre American is a novel about growing up in that world between foreign and native cultures. Poignant, funny, and sometimes hopelessly heartbreaking, So You Think Youre American will evoke profound emotions, tears or laughter, in even the most stoic of readers.
What is the world to Jordan Vianney? Keira de Luna. Her laughter when for once it isnt fake, her love of written words, the way her hair falls over her face when shes trying to look into your eyes. That was the Jordan from freshman year. Sixteen-year-old Jordans had a serious reality checkfrom finding pills in Keiras pockets, to arguments in the school parking lot and too many broken promises, along with 1,001 different warning signs. Worst of all, everyone keeps advising him to break up with her, as if thats what you do when the person you love needs you the most. Theyre wrong, arent they? Theyre all so wrong. Thats what sixteen-year-old Jordan thinks. Seventeen-year-old Jordan isnt so sure anymore. Told in the form of therapy sessions, phone calls, journal entries, and flashbacks, Generation Wasted combines substance abuse with the emotional turbulence of adolescence and shoves addiction into the spotlight by focusing on those who may be suffering even more than the addict: mothers, fathers, siblings, and in this case, boyfriends.
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