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Seventeen-year-old inseparable best friends Jia, Ariel, and Everett navigate first love, grief, racism, and Asian American consciousness during one life-changing summer apart. No library descriptions found. |
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I wanted a little more interaction between Jia and her grandmother, but I thought the weight on Jia’s shoulders was well conveyed, her romance albeit brief was cute, and I liked her arc, particularly the scene she shared with an older member of her community that nudged her into seeing things differently.
Everett’s chapters were probably the timeliest, addressing racism in both casting and the production of a musical during what was supposed to be her dream summer at theater camp. Everett’s confidence is aspirational throughout, and she has an applause worthy moment when she reaches her breaking point over the ignorance surrounding her.
Bea’s story is the one I probably would have most liked to see play out in a novel all its own, with the travel aspect, with investigating her sister’s death and the very serious baggage that entailed, a longer format would have made room to explore the setting a bit more and to dig even deeper into the emotion, but honestly this didn’t lose much by being slightly truncated, I loved the direction Bea and her sister’s story went in, it got me a little teary at a certain point, and I do like a book that can get me teary. ( )