{"id":46354,"date":"2020-01-19T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46354"},"modified":"2020-01-07T05:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T10:59:00","slug":"barely-missing-everything-by-matt-mendez-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/barely-missing-everything-by-matt-mendez-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Barely Missing Everything by Matt Mendez [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-45645\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Barely-Missing-Everything-Matt-Mendez-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Barely-Missing-Everything-Matt-Mendez-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/08\/Barely-Missing-Everything-Matt-Mendez-BookDragon.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/>Brown lives get overlooked, trampled, dismissed, and destroyed in <a href=\"https:\/\/mattmendez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Matt Mendez<\/a>\u2019s searing YA debut, set in his El Paso, Texas hometown. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timapabon?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Timothy Andr\u00e9s Pabon<\/a> \u2013 his voice aptly mimicking a teen who\u2019s not quite fully mature \u2013 opens in \u201cChapter Juan\u201d as should-be high school basketball star Juan; his split-second decision to run from the police after leaving a party lands him in jail overnight, while his resulting twisted ankle sidelines him just when college coaches might be offering scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Juan\u2019s best friend, wannabe filmmaker JD \u2013 voiced by always youthful-sounding Ram\u00f3n de Ocampo \u2013 wants out just as much, especially from his fragmenting family now that his mother\u2019s discovered his father\u2019s cheating. Juan\u2019s single mother Fabi \u2013 alternating between remorseful exhaustion and steely tenacity in Cynthia Farrell\u2019s affecting narration \u2013 once dreamed of a different future, but finds herself still stuck with a decrepit apartment, dead-end-job, and pregnant again.<\/p>\n<p>When Juan discovers Fabi\u2019s letters from an ex-boyfriend on death row, his assumption that this must be his father sets in motion a tragic chain of events. As inevitable as the ending might feel, the tragedy rings all too loud and clear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Barely-Missing-Everything-\/pid=9718706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em>, January 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers:<\/strong> Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown lives get overlooked, trampled, dismissed, and destroyed in Matt Mendez\u2019s searing YA debut, set in his El Paso, Texas hometown. 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