Calling my name

Liara Tamani
Book - 2017

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. --

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tamani, Liara (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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