Calling My Name
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Coming of Age
3.7
(75)
Liara Tamani
“Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear MartinCalling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose.Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.
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Author
Liara Tamani
Pages
320
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2017-10-24
ISBN
0062656880 9780062656889
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"I AM BLOWN AWAY!! I see sooo much of myself in Taja. She has questions about her faith and is suffering under the shame of purity culture and a spiritually abusive church. Yet she still knows God. She knows that His song is love, even if her church hardly says the word "love" at all during the service. Taja has the thoughts, questions, and experiences of SO MANY teenagers today. This book calls out societal problems and speaks the experiences of a teenage girl growing up in a toxic church culture with beautifully poetic language! Any teen should read this book to know that they are not alone in questioning the world around them!!!"
Joanna Highfill
"to say I enjoyed this book would be an understatement.. this is the type of book that makes you think about it long after you've read it. I learned a few things from it and the way it was written..no, the way it sucked you in was just jaw dropping. I had so much fun going along on Taja's journey. While she learned, so did I. It was an astonishing book and I'm so glad I picked this one up"
Raven
