Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong
A Historical, Fiction, Young Adult book. Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make...
"The tenderness and truth of the book moved my heart. As well as the enormous love." - Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple Identity Crisis. As a biracial teen, Nina is accustomed to a life of varied hues—mocha-colored skin, ringed brown hair streaked with red, a darker brother, a black father, a white mother. When her parents decide to divorce, the rainbow of Nina’s existence is reduced to a much starker reality. Shifting definitions and relationships are playing out all around her, and new boxes and lines seem to be getting drawn every day. Between the fractures within her family and the racial tensions splintering her hometown, Nina feels caught in a perpetual battle. Feeling stranded in the nowhere land between racial boundaries, and struggling for personal independence and identity, Nina turns to the story of her great-great-grandmother’s escape from slavery. Is there direction in the tale of her ancestor? Can Nina build her own compass when landmarks from her childhood stop guiding the way?
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- Pages: 222 pages
- ISBN: 9780310727637 / 0
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Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she's not here. Joan Steinau Lester, Black, White, Other: In Search of Nina Armstrong
...I find three whole chapters of MISS SARAH ARMSTRONG: ON THE RUN. Sarah, who might actually be the only person on the planet I can relate to. The only problem: she's dead.Nina's black father and white mother have decided to divorce, a racial uproar is spreading through Nina's hometown, and it seems her fellow teenaged classmates and... Nina Armstrong is a biracial teen with a little brother, Jimi, whose skin is darker than her own, a black father, and a white mother. Her life is good and she has great friends but it is not until her parents decide to divorce that she realizes she has been viewing her life through rose-colored glasses.Everyone in Ninas life is changing.... Nina Armstrong didn't think much about being biracial until her parents split up. She didn't think much about her creamy mocha skin and curly brown and red hair. Until her parents decided to divorce, she didn't really feel the need to "pick a side." Now that her darker-skinned brother, Jimi, has moved out with their [black] dad and...
