{"id":46411,"date":"2020-02-01T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T16:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46411"},"modified":"2020-01-11T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T16:25:01","slug":"for-black-girls-like-me-by-mariama-lockington-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/for-black-girls-like-me-by-mariama-lockington-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama Lockington [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46071\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/For-Black-Girls-Like-Me-Marlama-Lockington-BookDragon-522x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/For-Black-Girls-Like-Me-Marlama-Lockington-BookDragon-522x800.jpg 522w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/11\/For-Black-Girls-Like-Me-Marlama-Lockington-BookDragon.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/>Navigating ages, gender, backgrounds, and race, Imani Parks encompasses the peripatetic Kirkland family of four who relocate from Baltimore to Albuquerque. As bonded as the quartet \u2013 two musician parents, teen daughter Eve, and tween daughter Keda \u2013 might seem to the outside world, one of these is not like the others just by virtue of skin color: Keda, adopted as an infant, is Black, her family not.<\/p>\n<p>For Keda, leaving Baltimore means separation from BFF Lena, who\u2019s also a transracial adoptee. Keda\u2019s new-girl challenges \u2013 including daily microaggressions and even the N-word \u2013 are compounded as the sisters are left alone with their unreliable mother, a former prodigy resentful of her musician husband\u2019s international performances.<\/p>\n<p>Parks adapts effortlessly through the prose, verse poetry, diary-esque notebook entries, emails, and Tumblr posts that make up Mariama Lockington\u2019s (<em>The Lucky Daughter<\/em>) middle-grade fiction debut, which was 10 years in the writing and inspired by her own transracial-adoptee experiences. Capital-I\u00a0<em>Issues<\/em> are plenty \u2013 racial divides, color blindness, marital discord, identity formation, mental illness, suicide, and more \u2013 but Parks tackles each with enhancing empathy and discerning grace.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i><\/i>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/For-Black-Girls-Like-Me-\/pid=9724752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Booklist<\/em>, January 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Middle Grade<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating ages, gender, backgrounds, and race, Imani Parks encompasses the peripatetic Kirkland family of four who relocate from Baltimore to Albuquerque. 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