One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter Essays
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- ISBN: 9781427291424 (sound recording)
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Physical Description:
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electronic - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2017.
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General Note: | Unabridged. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrator: Scaachi Koul. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 154764 KB). |
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Genre: | Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2018 January
This debut collection of essays from BuzzFeed writer Koul is at once insanely funny and vulnerable. Koul discusses her Indian family and her break from their social norms (as when she introduced her parents to her boyfriend, who was white) and prejudice encountered both in her Indian culture and her life in Toronto, among many other anecdotes about womanhood, fears, gender roles, and positive body image. In one memorable entry, the author talks about how lighter skin is prized in India. Koul, who is fair-skinned, is revered for her beauty in India, but she discusses how in Canada the color of her skin matters in a different way. She says, "I'm not whiteâ¦but I'm just close enough that I could be, and just far enough that you know I'm not. I can check off a diversity box for you, but I don't make you nervous." She injects her blunt outlooks on life with hilarity. Koul's work for BuzzFeed give this volume added YA appeal.
Copyright 2018 School Library Journal.VERDICT An extremely teen-friendly series of writings on important subjects.âTyler Hixson, Brooklyn Public Library