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My Forbidden FaceMy Forbidden Face, BookGrowing up Under the Taliban : A Young Woman's Story
by LatifaBook - 2001Book, 2001
Added May 20, 2013
Added May 20, 2013
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Read by: Anna/Copley Teen Room Librarian for the TBOM group meeting on May 8th, 2013.
This is the stories of multiple teens struggling to find themselves and figure out who they are in the world. It’s told from their multiple points of view in poem and song lyric formats.
This was an interesting read for me because I wasn’t expecting it to be in poetry format. I was expecting a novel. On the other hand, I really enjoyed the way these stories were told. Each poem and song interwove themselves seemlessly with each of the others. Some responded to what had happened in other poems, some wrote their poems to another person who had a poem in the book. It was a unique take on writing a book in verse. Obviously, each person who “wrote” a poem was a character that came from David Levithan’s head, but he did a really great job with the characterizations and making each one as unique as the next. The first poem and the last poem are connected, which was a nice circle back to the beginning once you got to the end. I really felt that the emotions of the teens he was writing about were clearly stated, or were just as confusing for the reader sometimes as they can be for teens in real life. It was realistically done, and a book I would highly recommend to anyone who enjoys stories told in this fashion or thinks they would like to try one for the first time. The fact that some of the characters are gay is not stated in such a way as to hit the reader over the head with it, and there are some who appear straight. Some are lesbian. There is a good mix of characters and experiences to round out the story over all.Read by: Anna/Copley Teen Room Librarian for the TBOM group meeting on May 8th, 2013.
This is the stories of multiple teens struggling to find themselves and figure out who they are in the world. It’s told from their multiple points of view in…
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