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The stars and the blackness between them / Junauda Petrus.
Van Pelt Library PZ7.1.P474 St 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petrus, Junauda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans.
- Black people--Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad--Juvenile fiction.
- Black people.
- Lesbians--Juvenile fiction.
- Lesbians.
- Trinidad--Juvenile fiction.
- Trinidad.
- African Americans--Fiction.
- Blacks--Trinidad--Fiction.
- Trinidad--Fiction.
- Lesbians--Fiction.
- Trinidad and Tobago--Trinidad.
- Genre:
- Young adult fiction.
- Young adult works.
- Novels.
- Lesbian fiction.
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 308 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dutton Books for Young Readers, [2019]
- Summary:
- Port of Spain, Trinidad. Sixteen-year-old Audre is heartbroken, having just found out she's going to live in America with her father because her mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's granddaughter. Audre's grandmother (a dancer who drives a white convertible Mercedes and has a few secrets of her own) reassures Audre that she won't lose her roots, not even in some place called Minneapolis. "America have dey spirits too, believe me," she tells Audre. Minneapolis, USA. Sixteen-year-old Mabel is staring at a picture of Whitney Houston, trying figure out why she feels the way she feel - about her ex, Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods, and about the vague feeling of illness that's plagued her all summer. Mabel's reverie is cut short when her dad announces that a friend and his just-arrived-from-Trinidad daughter are coming for dinner. Mabel falls hard and fast for Audre, and she's determined to help Audre find her way in America - never an easy thing for a Black girl, as she knows. But their romance takes a turn when test results reveal exactly why a turn when test results reveal exactly why Mabel has been feeling low-key sick all summer. Suddenly it's Audre who must care for Mabel as she faces a deeply uncertain future. -- From dust jacket.
- "Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness." -- (Source of summary not specified)
- Trinidad. Audre is being sent to live in America with her father because her strictly religious mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's daughter. Her grandmother Queenie tries to reassure her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots. Minneapolis. Mabel is trying to figure out why she feels the way she feels-- about her ex Terrell, about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods. When Audre and her father come for dinner, Mabel falls hard for Audre and is determined to take care of her as she tries to navigate an American high school. But when test results reveal why Mabel has been feeling low-key sick all summer, it's Audre who is caring for Mabel as they face a deeply uncertain future. -- adapted from jacket
- Notes:
- Coretta Scott King Book Awards - Author, Honor, 2020
- Other Format:
- Online version: Petrus, Junauda, author. Stars and the blackness between them
- ISBN:
- 9780525555483
- 052555548X
- OCLC:
- 1080276137
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