{"id":47865,"date":"2021-03-15T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T15:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=47865"},"modified":"2021-03-05T17:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:11:36","slug":"chlorine-sky-by-mahogany-l-browne-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/chlorine-sky-by-mahogany-l-browne-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-47866\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Chlorine-Sky-Mahogany-L.-Browne-BookDragon-530x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Chlorine-Sky-Mahogany-L.-Browne-BookDragon-530x800.jpg 530w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/02\/Chlorine-Sky-Mahogany-L.-Browne-BookDragon.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mahogany L. Browne takes aural control of her novel-in-verse \u2013 a first novel for the prolific poet and writer (<em>Black Girl Magic,\u00a0<\/em>2018) \u2013 enhancing her story with soft, determined rhythms. \u201cME &amp; LAY LI AIN\u2019T TALKING,\u201d Browne opens, \u201ccause she think she cute \/ cause she think I ain\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>BFF-ship with Lay Li seems to be over, adding to the too many \u201cain\u2019t\u201ds that make the narrator feel like she\u2019s never enough. Her mother is mostly absent, her older sister wavers between dismissive and attacking. While Lay Li turns mean with the male gaze upon her, the narrator seeks solace in the pool or on the basketball court. Not until the final pages can she discard the damning labels of being \u201c&#8230; &amp; ugly &amp; stupid,\u201d and proudly claim her voice\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>her name: \u201cSKY SAYS &#8230; I am Sky &amp; \/ I got now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At just over two hours, Browne\u2019s verses pass quickly; what lingers is the tenacious strength of ready-to-claim girl power \u2013 \u201cI get to take up space too \/ &#8230; Like I can look in the mirror &amp;\u00a0 \/ Like my own me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Chlorine-Sky-\/pid=9744742\" 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>Mahogany L. Browne takes aural control of her novel-in-verse \u2013 a first novel for the prolific poet and writer (Black Girl Magic,\u00a02018) \u2013 enhancing her story with soft, determined rhythms. \u201cME &amp; LAY LI AIN\u2019T TALKING,\u201d Browne opens, \u201ccause she think she cute \/ cause&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,142,6,94,6535,7933,31],"tags":[84,6608,6668,9573,58,10,11,149,36,51,9572,129,170,44,434],"class_list":["post-47865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-black-african-american","category-fiction","category-poetry","category-repost","category-verse-novel","category-young-adult-readers","tag-betrayal","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-chlorine-sky","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-gender-inequality","tag-girl-power","tag-identity","tag-mahogany-l-browne","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-sibling-rivalry","tag-siblings","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. 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