A Patchwork of Perspectives (also a rant about how much i love this book)
Okay so lemme just preface this by saying A Place For Us is THE BEST book i have ever read and y'all should seriously check it out. OKAY now onto the real deal. the book is about a wedding and an estranged brother. that's what the description on the back says. and while that's not untrue, the book is about a lot more than just that. when you read this book, you realize that it's a patchwork of different events in different time periods from the perspective of different family members, creating a very multifaceted reading experience that can be a tad bit confusing at times (but it's on purpose, because the aim of this book is to capture the confusion of being a tightly knit family with very strict cultural and religious rules and ideologies, but in a country full of individuality and acceptance and the "you can be whoever you want to be" mentality). Here is my point of view box on the critical race theory worksheet! looking deeper, the confus...
