"Calling My Name is a treasure."--Nic Stone, New York
Times-bestselling author of Dear Martin
Calling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of
family, spirituality, and self--ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson,
Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.
This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about
Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas,
and deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing
up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and
finding a unique voice and purpose.
Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters,
Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high
school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that
captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why
you matter.