The House You Pass On the Way
by Jacqueline Woodson
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appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Teen & Young Adult.
A lyrical comingofage story from a threetime Newbery Honor winning authorThirteenyearold Staggerlee used to be called Evangeline, but she took on a fiercer name. She's always been differentset apart by the tragic deaths of her grandparents in an anticivil rights bombing, by her parents' interracial marriage, and by her family's retreat from...
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appears in Lesbian, LGBTQ, and Teen & Young Adult.
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“Sharp, intimate prose and a confined Paris setting produce a small, intense novel that tracks a young man's struggle between desire and social expectation. Its useful part is the sustained, inward pressure: long passages of reflection that make moral hesitation feel palpable and the prose often luminous. The main limitation is narrow scope—the plot is compact and frequently inward, so secondary figures stay sketchy and the mood can feel claustrophobic; readers seeking momentum or wider context may find it slow.”
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