{"id":47864,"date":"2021-03-19T11:12:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47864"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:09:57","slug":"we-are-the-ashes-we-are-the-fire-by-joy-mccullough-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/we-are-the-ashes-we-are-the-fire-by-joy-mccullough-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47869\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/We-Are-the-Ashes-We-Are-the-Fire-Joy-McCullough-BookDragon-528x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/We-Are-the-Ashes-We-Are-the-Fire-Joy-McCullough-BookDragon-528x800.jpg 528w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/We-Are-the-Ashes-We-Are-the-Fire-Joy-McCullough-BookDragon.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/>Invoking the shocking Chanel Miller case, Joy McCullough introduces a mixed Guatemalan\/presumed-to-be-white family in which older daughter Elinor is brutally raped; although found guilty, the rapist is released for \u201ctime served.\u201d Despite best intentions, younger daughter Marianne\u2019s social justice-driven public outrage only causes further damage to her deeply suffering family. She finds solace in her lyrical writing, imagining the exploits of a medieval noblewoman who audaciously avenged sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>In a hybrid text \u2013 in this case, a story-in-verse inside a prose novel \u2013 audio distinction is essential, since the reader is without the benefit of visual cues that are immediately obvious on the page. Here, a dual-narration would have better served McCullough&#8217;s layered text. Frankie Corzo is a favorite and capable narrator, but doesn&#8217;t succeed in vocally distinguishing between the framing narrative set in contemporary Seattle and the 15th-century French swashbuckling epic-in-verse being composed and interwoven throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere between the 15th and 21st centuries, the family must figure out how to begin to heal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/We-Are-the-Ashes-We-are-the-Fire-\/pid=9745177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invoking the shocking Chanel Miller case, Joy McCullough introduces a mixed Guatemalan\/presumed-to-be-white family in which older daughter Elinor is brutally raped; although found guilty, the rapist is released for \u201ctime served.\u201d Despite best intentions, younger daughter Marianne\u2019s social justice-driven public outrage only causes further damage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,6,197,199,60,94,6535,7933,31],"tags":[6608,6668,10,8896,11,149,51,8131,129,39,598,44,9571],"class_list":["post-47864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-fiction","category-hapa","category-latinaox","category-nonethnic-specific","category-poetry","category-repost","category-verse-novel","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-family","tag-frankie-corzo","tag-friendship","tag-gender-inequality","tag-identity","tag-joy-mccullough","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-sexual-violence","tag-siblings","tag-we-are-the-ashes-we-are-the-fire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough [in Booklist] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/we-are-the-ashes-we-are-the-fire-by-joy-mccullough-in-booklist\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Are the Ashes, We Are the Fire by Joy McCullough [in Booklist] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Invoking the shocking Chanel Miller case, Joy McCullough introduces a mixed Guatemalan\/presumed-to-be-white family in which older daughter Elinor is brutally raped; 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