Description
"Calling My Name is a treasure."--Nic Stone, New York Times-bestselling author of Dear Martin
Calling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self--ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.
This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose.
Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.
Author: Liara Tamani
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: 09/04/2018
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780062656872
ISBN10: 0062656872
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Coming of Age
- Young Adult Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places | United States | African American & Black