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First Published:
Apr 2023, 352 pages
Paperback:
Jul 9, 2024, 384 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Lisa Ahima
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Anyone can point to a moment in their life when they felt silenced. While thinking about such a moment, a person might wonder how speaking up could have changed the course of things. At the same time, we can't always be the masters of our destinies. The way our identities may intersect within marginalized cultures, ethnicities, races and neurodivergences can add to this feeling of silencing, bringing a sense of doubt and shame around speaking up and advocating for ourselves and others. So what can 16-year-old bruja-in-training (see Beyond the Book) Yolanda Alvarez do when she has a premonition that the new white kid Ben, the son of a local politician, is planning a school shooting? How can she figure out a way for others to trust in her visions when she doesn't trust them herself? Lorraine Avila's gut-wrenching young adult debut, The Making of Yolanda la Bruja, is a coming-of-age novel ...
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