Every Body Looking
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Every Body Looking is a novel of a young woman’s struggle to carve a place for herself—for her black female body—in a world of deeply conflicting messages.
Told entirely in verse, Ada’s story encompasses her earliest memories as a child, including her abuse at the hands of a young cousin, her mother’s rejection and descent into addiction, and her father’s attempts to create a home for his American daughter more like the one he knew in Nigeria.
The present-tense of the book is Ada’s first year at Howard University in Washington DC, where she must finally confront the fundamental conflict between who her family says she should be and what her body tells her she must be.
ISBN: 9780525556206
JLG Release: Dec 2020
Sensitive Areas:
Language: Strong Language Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes Violence: Sexual Assault/Rape Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Drug Use/Abuse Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Reference or Discussion
Topics:
Dancing
, Memory
, Sexuality
, College life
, HBCUS (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
, Howard University, Washington DC
, Emigration and immigration
, Family
Awards & Honors
2020 National Book Award Shortlist for Young People's Literature
2021 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book
Book Details
ISBN
9780525556206
First Release
December 2020
Genre
Nonfic
Dewey Classification
F
Trim Size
8 3/10" x 5 1/2"
Page Count
416
Accelerated Reader
N/AScholastic Reading Counts
N/ALexile
N/AFormat
Print Book
Edition
Hardcover edition
Publisher
Dutton
Potentially Sensitive Areas
Language: Strong Language Sexual Content: Strong Sexual Content/Themes Violence: Sexual Assault/Rape Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Drug Use/Abuse Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Reference or Discussion
Topics
Dancing, Memory, Sexuality, College life, HBCUS (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), Howard University, Washington DC, Emigration and immigration, Family,
