Where You Belong
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| Author(s) | Mary Ann McGuigan |
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| Publisher | Atheneum |
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| After fleeing her alcoholic father’s rage, Fiona finds refuge in the home of Yolanda, a black girl from her former school. But, it’s 1963 and interracial friendships are taboo. McGuigan demonstrates a wonderful talent for creating emotionally complex characters, believable situations, and closely observed, realistic settings. —Booklist starred review. | |
After fleeing her alcoholic father’s rage, Fiona finds refuge in the home of Yolanda, a black girl from her former school. But, it’s 1963 and interracial friendships are taboo. McGuigan demonstrates a wonderful talent for creating emotionally complex characters, believable situations, and closely observed, realistic settings. —Booklist starred review.
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Fiona doesn’t know where she belongs. When her mother is evicted from their Bronx apartment in New York, she tries to return to her father’s house—only to flee one of his drunken rages the first night back. Alone, she wanders the streets until—by chance—she bumps into an old classmate. Yolanda seems to understand her pain. Misfits, both girls search for belonging. Will they find it in each other? … even though one is black and the other is white? Mary Ann McGuigan deftly explores how racism riddles the lives of these characters in New York during the early ‘60s, leaving readers hopeful about friendship’s power to bridge chasms—perceived and real.
