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“Let me be grateful and let me be of use”
“May what appears to be broken actually be in the midst of an untold unforeseeable healing”
I don’t remember when or why I added this to my list but I am so glad I did! Her stories of having to advocate for herself with the medical community was sad - but also nice to hear it described so clearly… same with her descriptions of trying to become pregnant and fears while pregnant.
It was written in a lovely manner - serious topics but I also laughed to myself along the way along with the author.
“May what appears to be broken actually be in the midst of an untold unforeseeable healing”
I don’t remember when or why I added this to my list but I am so glad I did! Her stories of having to advocate for herself with the medical community was sad - but also nice to hear it described so clearly… same with her descriptions of trying to become pregnant and fears while pregnant.
It was written in a lovely manner - serious topics but I also laughed to myself along the way along with the author.
I am glad our elementary school district has books like this in its curriculum. It wasn’t the most engaging middle grades book I have read about dealing with racism but it was a fast read. I think what I was missing was more differentiation between Chris’ and Karina’s voices - but maybe it was intentional in that we are all more alike than different.
Unfortunately as we were reading it there were true stories in the news of real life attacks on Asian Americans so it was clearly a realistic story - and by reading this together it then gave us some shared language to discuss the real life attacks.
The Gen-Xer in me did really enjoy that Karina did not magically get into the art show when she missed the deadline. (What does that say about me?!)
Merged review:
I am glad our elementary school district has books like this in its curriculum. It wasn’t the most engaging middle grades book I have read about dealing with racism but it was a fast read. I think what I was missing was more differentiation between Chris’ and Karina’s voices - but maybe it was intentional in that we are all more alike than different.
Unfortunately as we were reading it there were true stories in the news of real life attacks on Asian Americans so it was clearly a realistic story - and by reading this together it then gave us some shared language to discuss the real life attacks.
The Gen-Xer in me did really enjoy that Karina did not magically get into the art show when she missed the deadline. (What does that say about me?!)
Unfortunately as we were reading it there were true stories in the news of real life attacks on Asian Americans so it was clearly a realistic story - and by reading this together it then gave us some shared language to discuss the real life attacks.
The Gen-Xer in me did really enjoy that Karina did not magically get into the art show when she missed the deadline. (What does that say about me?!)
Merged review:
I am glad our elementary school district has books like this in its curriculum. It wasn’t the most engaging middle grades book I have read about dealing with racism but it was a fast read. I think what I was missing was more differentiation between Chris’ and Karina’s voices - but maybe it was intentional in that we are all more alike than different.
Unfortunately as we were reading it there were true stories in the news of real life attacks on Asian Americans so it was clearly a realistic story - and by reading this together it then gave us some shared language to discuss the real life attacks.
The Gen-Xer in me did really enjoy that Karina did not magically get into the art show when she missed the deadline. (What does that say about me?!)
She remembers that today is Sunday which six days out of seven is not true
