The Harlem Charade by Natasha Tarpley [in Shelf Awareness]
28 Feb, by in Black/African American, Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost
Twelve-year-old Jin Yi records "interesting moments and details" in her memory notebook while watching customers shop in her Korean American family's Harlem bodega: "[P]eople will tell you their stories in the way that they move, how their faces look, how they speak." Observing turns to...