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Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. HTML:Longlisted for the National Book Award. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it??s the first time she??s ever been so far from her family??and the first time that she??s been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past??her mother??s struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father??s attempts to make a home for her. Ultimately, Ada discovers she needs to brush off the destiny others have chosen for her and claim full ownership of her body and her future. ??Candice Iloh??s beautifully crafted narrative about family, belonging, sexuality, and telling our deepest truths in order to be whole is at once immensely readable and ultimately healing.???Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times Bestselling Author of Brown Girl Dreaming ??An essential??and emotionally gripping and masterfully written and compulsively readable??addition to the coming-of-age canon.???Nic Stone, New York Times Bestselling Author of Dear Martin ??This is a story about the sometimes toxic and heavy expectations set onthe backs of first-generation children, the pressures woven into the familydynamic, culturally and socially. About childhood secrets with sharp teeth. And ultimately, about a liberation that taunts every young person.? ??Jason Reynolds, New Y… (more)
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Author and narrator Candice Iloh depicts Ada’s trials through poetry. Candice depicts bewilderment just as experienced, in fragments that need to be pieced together with gaps missing. This allows the reader to make many inferences and Ada more relatable. Every Body Looking touches on topics of: sexuality, drug abuse, sexual assault, religion, heritage, and ethnicity.
A very short read/listen, it splices together snippets of the life of Ada, the main character, from when they were a little girl to the time they are a first semester first
It was a bit opened ended. I wanted more about Ada and the decisions made in the last chapter.