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A review by ceris
Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America by Ellen Hopkins, Nina LaCour, Tracy Deonn, Amy Reed, Maurene Goo, Martha Brockenbrough, Anna-Marie McLemore, Julie Murphy, Jenny Torres Sanchez, Sandhya Menon, Alexandra Duncan, Sona Charaipotra, Tracy Deonn Walker, Amber Smith, Aisha Saeed, Stephanie Kuehnert, Hannah Moskowitz, I.W. Gregorio, Jaye Robin Brown, Brandy Colbert, Christine Day, Somaiya Daud
This is a collection of personal essays that respond to Trump being elected. I’m sure that these YA authors needed to write these essays, but I’m not convinced that I needed to read them. Maybe it was just too one note? It was a lot of feelings and rage and trauma that were brought up by the election, and individually they were all decent and valid, but put together they didn’t have a very interesting variety.