Marina Budhos, whose parents came from two different immigrant streams,
always listens for the story within the story. Here, in fourteen
intimate conversations and many short interviews, teenagers from all
over the world reveal their most personal struggles and triumphs. Remix
features Muslim girls from traditional families and Guyanese boys who
know every hot new club, Hmong athletes, Russians in Disneyland, Central
Americans sustained by community and tempted by gangs, Koreans facing
extreme pressures to succeed, and many others. Filled with insights
about American teenage culture and moving stories about the special
challenges immigrants face, Remix shows all the voices of the new
America. Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and
nonfiction. She has published two novels: The Professor of Light (1999)
and House of Waiting (1995). Her short stories, articles, essays, and
book reviews have appeared in publications such as The Kenyon Review,
The Nation, Ms., Travel & Leisure, Time Out, and Los Angeles Times. She
has received a Rona Jaffe Award for Women Writers, a New Jersey Council
on the Arts Fellowship, and has been a Fulbright Scholar to India. Her
first young adult novel, Ask Me No Questions (2006), was named an ALA
Best Book for Young Adults and a Notable Book and received the first
James Cook Teen Book Award. She is currently a professor of English at
William Paterson University and lives in New Jersey with her husband and
two sons.
