Picture Us In the Light
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2019
Lexile Score
890
Reading Level
4-5
نویسنده
James Chenشابک
9781974960613
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
Starred review from February 12, 2018
It’s easy to pigeonhole books: this one’s an immigrant story, this will appeal to readers who have lost someone to suicide, here’s a doomed love story, and so on. Gilbert (Conviction) includes all these elements and more in this novel, masterfully negotiating plot twists and revelations while keeping the focus on her characters. Danny Cheng is an artist and one of the least wealthy kids at Silicon Valley High School; when he gets a full scholarship to RISD, he pictures his “whole life radiating like a sunbeam out from this one point.” But the sunbeam is shadowed by the guilt and grief that Danny, his best friend Harry, and Harry’s girlfriend feel about their friend Sandra’s death, and it fades entirely when his father’s job loss forces the family to move. The move dredges up secrets that Danny’s Chinese immigrant parents have been keeping and even threatens his college future. And the love story? It’s there too, in the interstices, another secret that Gilbert handles subtly and surprisingly. Ages 14–up. Agent: Adriann Ranta Zurhellen, Foundry Literary.
James Chen's narration captures the life-changing school year of Danny Cheng--a Chinese-American teen who is living in Cupertino, California. Danny is overflowing with both youthful optimism and the anxiety of his upcoming high school graduation. Like most teens, Danny sees his friends as his world. Chen's heartfelt narration will make listeners feel a part of his group of overachieving teens who are still reeling from a past traumatic event. When Danny's parents uproot him, he goes searching for family secrets and confides in his best friend, Harry. Chen highlights the unspoken feelings and moments that define their slowly changing friendship. He also captures Danny's secretive but loving immigrant parents and believably delivers the omniscient narrator's depiction of a past best forgotten. J.E.C. � AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
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