Don't ask me where I'm from
Jennifer De Leon
Bok · Engelsk · 2020 · Roman
| Utgitt | USA : Simon&Schuster , 2020
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| Omfang | 323 s.
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| Opplysninger | Fifteen-year-old Liliana is fine, thank you very much. Itﾙs fine that her best friend, Jade, is all caught up in her new boyfriend lately. Itﾙs fine that her inner-city high school is disorganized and underfunded. Itﾙs fine that her father took off againﾔokay, maybe that isnﾙt fine, but what is Liliana supposed to do? Sheﾙs fifteen! Being left with her increasingly crazy mom? Fine. Her heathen little brothers? Fine, fine, fine. But it turns out Dad did leave one thing behind besides her crazy family. Before he left, he signed Liliana up for a school desegregation program called METCO. And sheﾙs been accepted. Being accepted into METCO, however, isnﾙt the same as being accepted at her new school. In her old school, Lilianaﾔhalf-Guatemalan and half-El Salvadorianﾔwas part of the majority where almost everyone was a person of color. But now at Westburg, where almost everyone is white, the struggles of being a minority are unavoidable. It becomes clear that the only way to survive is to lighten upﾔwhiten up. And if Dad signed her up for this program, he wouldnﾙt have just wanted Liliana to survive, he would have wanted her to thrive. So what if Liliana is now going by Lili? So what if sheﾙs acting like she thinks sheﾙs better than her old friends? Itﾙs not a big deal. Itﾙs fine. But then she discovers the gutting truth about her father: Heﾙs not on one of his side trips. And it isnﾙt that he doesnﾙt want to come homeﾦhe canﾙt. Heﾙs undocumented and heﾙs being deported back to Guatemala. Soon, nothing is fine, and Lili has to make a choice: Sheﾙs done trying to make her white classmates and teachers feel more comfortable. Done changing who she is, denying her culture and where she came from. They want to know where sheﾙs from, what sheﾙs about? Liliana is ready to tell them.
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| ISBN | 9781534438248(ib.)
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| Hylleplass | engelsk ungdom
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