{"id":47221,"date":"2020-09-10T11:12:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T15:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47221"},"modified":"2020-08-30T16:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:50:23","slug":"parachutes-by-kelly-yang-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/parachutes-by-kelly-yang-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Parachutes by Kelly Yang [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"After a minute of unnecessary, ill-suited music, this recording opens with a chilling content warning: \u201cThis book contains scenes depicting sexual harassment and rape.\u201d Kelly Yang\u2019s highly anticipated follow-up to her award-winning middle-grade debut, Front Desk<\/em> (2018), is markedly different from that book, as she draws on her own sexual assault at Harvard Law School and the scarring aftermath of Harvard\u2019s negligent response.<\/p>\n

Set in a Los Angeles private school, the book alternates chapters between two teens from opposite backgrounds. Wealthy Claire \u2013 breathily voiced by relative newbie Cassie Simone \u2013 arrives from Shanghai as a so-called \u201cparachute,\u201d an unaccompanied Chinese child who \u201cdrops in\u201d seeking a U.S. education. Scholarship student Dani \u2013 solidly embodied by veteran Karissa Vacker \u2013 helps her Filipina American single mother clean houses.<\/p>\n

Claire is assigned to Dani\u2019s home by the placement agency, but the two share little in common. Claire is quickly welcomed by fellow privileged parachutes while Dani focuses on being a debate champion and getting into Yale.\u00a0Trauma, tragically, is what eventually binds the unlikely pair.<\/p>\n

Despite varying performance styles \u2013 Vacker is assured; Simone overly hesitant \u2013 the narrators\u2019 actual voices aren\u2019t particularly distinguishable; greater differentiation would have ensured more affecting results.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Media,” Booklist Online<\/em>, August 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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