I found that so interesting and I could tell that this story was written with so much heart. Her heritage is the same as Nevaeh’s as were some of her life experiences. This story was in large part biographical for the author. I could listen to Bahni’s voice all day and she does an amazing job bringing her characters to life. I picked this as my book of the month pick in 2019 and never got to it (fail on my part) but when I saw there was an audiobook and that audiobook was narrated by Bahni Turpin, I knew I had to listen to it. There were also a lot of great side characters, I especially liked her Rabbi Sarah and her best friend Stevie. As much as I enjoyed Nevaeh’s story, I really loved finding out more about her mother with her journal entries. Nevaeh discovers who she is and who she wants to be, even though the path is rocky at times. This is very much a book about self discovery. She’s never felt like she fully fit in anywhere, and being with her mother’s family so much has only brought that to light more. Being biracial has been challenging to her at times. Her parents are separated, she’s spending half of her time with her white, jewish father in the house she grew up in, and the other half of the time with her black mother and extended family in Harlem where her mother grew up. Nevaeh Levitz is 15 and she’s got a lot going on in her life. It doesn’t matter if you’re family or a stranger on the subway we do it everywhere, even here, in our safe spaces, where we’re supposed to love each other up and down.”Ĭolor Me In is Natasha Diaz’s debut novel that’s a coming of age story about a half black, half jewish girl trying to find her place in the world. “We all make assumptions about each other. Will she continue to let circumstances dictate her path? Or will she find power in herself and decide once and for all who and where she is meant to be? It's only when Nevaeh stumbles upon a secret from her mom's past, finds herself falling in love, and sees firsthand the prejudice her family faces that she begins to realize she has a voice. Even with the push and pull of her two cultures, Nevaeh does what she's always done when life gets complicated: she stays silent. In the midst of attempting to blend their families, Nevaeh's dad decides that she should have a belated bat mitzvah instead of a sweet sixteen, which guarantees social humiliation at her posh private school. Nevaeh wants to get to know her extended family, but one of her cousins can't stand that Nevaeh, who inadvertently passes as white, is too privileged, pampered, and selfish to relate to the injustices they face on a daily basis as African Americans. When her Black mom and Jewish dad split up, she relocates to her mom's family home in Harlem and is forced to confront her identity for the first time. Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots. Debut YA author Natasha Díaz pulls from her personal experience to inform this powerful coming-of-age novel about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds.
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