5/27/2023 0 Comments Black enough by ibi zoboi![]() ![]() ![]() If someone made such an anthology, Reynolds’ tale of four boys chattering about their dream sandwich would fit right in. *“The Ingredients” by Jason Reynolds: So in my college lit and creative writing classes, we often got Best Of anthologies as textbooks and they’d represent the best short stories of the year or best poetry/stories/literature from a specific literary movement like Romanticism. Raven isn’t fond of her due to how Brooke represents Raven’s abandonment by their shared father, but their bond as sisters wins out over their dad being an awful human being. *“Half a Moon” by Renee Watson: Lord, I loved that the book opened with a story from my favorite modern YA author! Raven is a high school teen and camp counselor for the summer whose younger half-sister Brooke is attending camp. (That’s a lie, of course it can.) I’m not going to pussyfoot around: Black Enough is an impressive collection and you should get your hands on it from the store, the library, or in any other legal manner.įrankly, I can describe every story in the anthology as a highlight because all of them are just that good, but that’s not how highlights work! But a few that really got to me in the best ways: ![]() Lord, anthologies are having a good run when you have a diverse, #ownvoices set of authors involved! First Fresh Ink and now Black Enough, I don’t know if YA can handle all this excellence. ![]() See more of my reviews on The YA Kitten! My copy was an ARC I got from the publisher as a reviewer for YA Books Central. ![]()
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