Sara R. (appaloosatb) reviewed Rites of Passage: Stories About Growing Up by Black Writers from Around the World on + 96 more book reviews
Book Description:
New friends, broken hearts, shattered illusions - RITES OF PASSAGE. Each of the seventeen short stories in this collection shows young people recognizing the boundaries of their world and attempting to move beyond them.
In "Marigolds," Eugenia Collier depicts a young girl whose fear and anger move her to an act of destruction; Clarence Major's "My Mother and Mitch" paints a touching portrait of a young boy who discovers that his mother sometimes finds life as bewildering as he does; and in "My Lucy," Howard Gordon writes of the wreching experience of first love. Other contributors include Ama Ata Aidoo, Toni Cade Bambara, John Henrik Clarke, and Njabulo Ndebele.
In RITES OF PASAGE, editor Tonya Bolden has collected stories that creat bridges into new worlds: worlds varied and real and often painful. From Costa Rica to Ghana, Jamaica to Australia, and around the United States, theses are stories, characters, and experiences that are as individual as they are universal.
New friends, broken hearts, shattered illusions - RITES OF PASSAGE. Each of the seventeen short stories in this collection shows young people recognizing the boundaries of their world and attempting to move beyond them.
In "Marigolds," Eugenia Collier depicts a young girl whose fear and anger move her to an act of destruction; Clarence Major's "My Mother and Mitch" paints a touching portrait of a young boy who discovers that his mother sometimes finds life as bewildering as he does; and in "My Lucy," Howard Gordon writes of the wreching experience of first love. Other contributors include Ama Ata Aidoo, Toni Cade Bambara, John Henrik Clarke, and Njabulo Ndebele.
In RITES OF PASAGE, editor Tonya Bolden has collected stories that creat bridges into new worlds: worlds varied and real and often painful. From Costa Rica to Ghana, Jamaica to Australia, and around the United States, theses are stories, characters, and experiences that are as individual as they are universal.
