The feelings of confusion, guilt, and shame are exacerbated when Nevaeh uncovers truths about her parents that further cloud her ability to self-identity. Today, I’m having the lovely Natasha Daz on the blog to talk about her upcoming debut, Color Me In, a contemporary story I personally count in one of my most anticipated reads of the year. In case you missed it, A Talk With is a brand new feature here on Drizzle & Hurricane Books, where I will invite young adult book authors to chat with me about their upcoming books, share their writing tips and tricks and more Today, I’m having the lovely Natasha Dìaz on the blog to talk about her upcoming debut, Color Me In, a. Color Me In is her debut young adult novel. Her personal essays have been published in the Establishment and HuffPost. Living with her maternal side of the family, Nevaeh confronts feelings of confusion, guilt, and shame when facing multiple situations where she is treated positively because of her light skin color while witnessing her family and friends in the same community treated differently because of their shades-of-brown skin. As a screenwriter, Natasha has been a quarterfinalist in the Austin Film Festival and a finalist for both the NALIP Diverse Women in Media Residency Lab at ARC and the Sundance Episodic Story Lab. If it weren’t for the burst of brown freckles that swarm around my nose and across my cheekbones, I’d be the way I am most of the time: invisible-swallowed up whole by the. It is Nevaeh’s story, one about a high-school aged young woman forced to deal with the effects of polarizing social categories: Christianity and Judaism white-skinned and dark-skinned upper social class and blue-collar working class.īecause of her parents’ recent separation, Nevaeh and her mother have moved away from their bougie community where Nevaeh has lived most of her life secluded from her extended family to a community of color and her mother’s people. The sound travels over the damp off-white tiles, back to my reflection in a mirror so streaked and blurred with soap scum my skin almost blends into the walls behind me. And she has choices.Color Me In is a coming-of-age YA novel about the important role defining one’s identity is in an individual’s journey to come-of-age. So 'Color Me In' has a young adult character that I think some readers will definitely enjoy. This book will be released on August 20, 2019. 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. Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. 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. Color Me In, Natasha Díaz, Bahni Turpin, Teen>Tough Topics, Teen>General, >Teen, Listening Library (Audio), 11. Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots.
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