A review by crystal_reading
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox by Cristina García

2.0

Yum I is a girl going through many changes and challenges. She just wants to stop & keep everything the same. That is not an option though so she takes her grandfather's advice and gets on with the business of living. The relationship she has with her grandfather is one of the reasons I enjoyed the book so much. He shares a lot of what he believes like, "I'd rather live with uncertainty than believe easy answers, only to have something to believe in." (p 151) Yumi is Japanese, Jewish and Cuban (with a little Guatemalan in there too) so race and culture come up, but the book is mostly about Yumi growing up and dealing with change. It has sad moments along with humorous ones and though romance is touched on, I appreciated that this book was not focused on that.