A novel in verse book, winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for new Talent, Me (Moth)
A novel in verse book, winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for new Talent, Me (Moth) by Amber McBride on the surface seems like a simple road trip story of two teens trying to find their identity. Moth, an aspiring dancer, the Black granddaughter of a Hoodoo root worker, is still navigating an accident’s fallout that took her parents and brother. Sani a talented Navajo musician originally from New Mexico, who had moved cross country to live with his white mother, step-father, who thinks he is “sick in the head” and family, has a similar traumatic background to Moth that includes an abusive step-father and severe depression. Both needing a change, they decide to go on a road trip out to New Mexico where Sani’s Navajo father, a medicine man lives. On their road trip, they stop at national landmarks that give them an opportunity to talk about their grief, their hurts and things that they have been going through. By the end of their journey, they find that their search for their identity has moved them forward to the place they both were meant to be. I really enjoyed this book. I am not a great fan of verse books, but this one is so well written. It kept me interested and wanting to go back and read it again to find all the things that I missed on the first read around. -- source link
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