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Watson, Renée

This Side of Home

326 pp. | Bloomsbury | February, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59990-668-3 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-61963-213-4
(4) YA Maya cycles through senior year, reflecting on changes to her closest relationships and her newly gentrified Portland, Oregon, neighborhood. Depictions of student activism focus on contemporary social issues and emphasize the importance of sankofa: "taking lessons from the past and bringing it into the future." Despite some unevenly nuanced characters, Watson's debut novel authentically protrays one African American teen's experiences.
Reviewer: Breanna J. MCDaniel

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