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  • Written by: Liara Tamani
  • Narrated by: Imani Parks
  • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Written by: Liara Tamani
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Publisher's Summary

Calling My Name, by debut author Liara Tamani, is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self - ideal for listeners of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.

This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas. It deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose.

Told in 53 short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that deftly captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.

©2017 Liara Tamani (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
Teen & Young Adult Depression & Mental Health Family Coming of Age Literature & Fiction
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Evocative, poetic, senso

Evocative, gracefully poetic, coming-of-age vignettes. A precise, sensory tour, inside the mind of a well a grounded, well surrounded, airy and ultimately loveable, young girl in her interaction with friends, parents, siblings, nature, faith and a lover. Captivating because the reader is taken in, and delightfully kept inside a kaleidoscope of senses, emotions, thoughts, so carefully and distinctly depicted; and how this all plays out, inside her mind, inside her soul and inside her precious and marvellous body. Out of this world performance by prodigy narrator Imani Parks.

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