About The Book:
Author: Natasha Diaz
Pub.
Date: August 20, 2019
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 384
Debut
YA author Natasha Diaz pulls from her personal experience to inform this
powerful coming-of-age novel about the meaning of friendship, the joyful beginnings
of romance, and the racism and religious intolerance that can both strain a
family to the breaking point and strengthen its bonds.
Who
is Nevaeh Levitz?
Growing up in an affluent
suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much
about her biracial roots. 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.
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. 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. Even with the push and pull of
her two cultures, Nevaeh does what she's always done when life gets
complicated: she stays silent.
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. And she has choices. Will she continue to let circumstances
dictate her path? Or will she find power in herself and decide once and for all
who and where she is meant to be?
Now on to the excerpt!
Color Me In_excerpt 2 by Jaime Arnold on Scribd
About Natasha:
Natasha Díaz is a born and raised New Yorker, currently residing in
Brooklyn, NY with her tall husband. She spends most of her days writing with no
pants on and alternating between E.R. and Grey’s Anatomy binges. Formerly a
reality TV producer, Natasha is both an author and screenwriter. Her scripts
have placed as a quarterfinalist in the Austin Film Festival and a finalist for
both the NALIP Diverse Women in Media Fellowship and the Sundance Episodic
Story Lab. Her essays can be found in The Establishment and Huffington Post.
Raised by a first generation half-Liberian/half-Brazilian mother and a
Jewish-American father, Natasha writes stories about people who don’t fit into
the boxes society imposes, and instead, create their own as they search for
their places in the world. Her first novel, Color Me In, will be published by
Delacorte Press/Random House August, 20 2019.
Giveaway Details:
3 winners will receive a finished copy
of COLOR ME IN, US Only.
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