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  • Written by: Candice Iloh
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  • Length: 2 hrs and 54 mins
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Every Body Looking

Written by: Candice Iloh
Narrated by: Candice Iloh
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Publisher's Summary

A Finalist for the National Book Award

When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it’s the first time she’s ever been so far from her family - and the first time that she’s been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. 

As she stumbles deeper into the world of dance and explores her sexuality, she also begins to wrestle with her past - her mother’s struggle with addiction, her Nigerian father’s attempts to make a home for her. Ultimately, Ada discovers she needs to brush off the destiny others have chosen for her and claim full ownership of her body and her future. 

“Candice Iloh’s beautifully crafted narrative about family, belonging, sexuality, and telling our deepest truths in order to be whole is at once immensely readable and ultimately healing.”(Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times best-selling author of Brown Girl Dreaming)

“An essential - and emotionally gripping and masterfully written and compulsively readable - addition to the coming-of-age canon.” (Nic Stone, New York Times best-selling author of Dear Martin)

“This is a story about the sometimes toxic and heavy expectations set on the backs of first-generation children, the pressures woven into the family dynamic, culturally, and socially. About childhood secrets with sharp teeth. And ultimately, about a liberation that taunts every young person.” (Jason Reynolds, New York Times best-selling author of Long Way Down)

©2020 Candice Iloh (P)2020 Listening Library

What the critics say

A Michael L. Printz Award Honoree

One of Reader's Digest's 50 Best YA Novels of All Time

"Candice Iloh's beautifully crafted narrative about family, belonging, sexuality, and telling our deepest truths in order to be whole is at once immensely readable and ultimately healing."—Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Brown Girl Dreaming 

"An essential—and emotionally gripping and masterfully written and compulsively readable—addition to the coming-of-age canon."—Nic Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin 

"I can't remember the last time I read a story that stood this effortlessly at the axis of so many slivers of young American life. To show complexity without box-checking, and empathy without melodrama, to me, makes this a story with legs, and Iloh a writer to watch." —Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Long Way Down
 

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