IMPOSTER SYNDROME AND OTHER CONFESSIONS OF ALEJANDRA KIM By: Patricia Park
Random House Childrens Books
March 2023
On Sale: February 21, 2023
304 pages ISBN: 0593563379 EAN: 9780593563373 Kindle: B0B52ZK3YH Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Alejandra Kim doesn’t feel like she belongs anywhere. At her wealthy Manhattan high school, her súper Spanish name and súper Korean face do not compute to her mostly white "woke" classmates and teachers. In her Jackson Heights neighborhood, she’s not Latinx enough. Even at home, Ale feels unwelcome. And things at home have only gotten worse since Papi's body was discovered on the subway tracks.
Ale wants nothing more than to escape the city for the wide-open spaces of the prestigious Wyder University. But when a microaggression at school thrusts Ale into the spotlight—and into a discussion she didn’t ask for—Ale must discover what is means to carve out a space for yourself to belong.
Patricia Park’s coming-of-age novel about a multicultural teen caught between worlds, and the future she is building for herself, is an incisive, laugh-out-loud, provocative read.
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