Calling My Name
β Scribed by Tamani, Liara
- Book ID
- 109574380
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062656889
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β¦ Synopsis
Calling My Name, by debut author Liara Tamani, is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and selfβideal 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 deftly captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.
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