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03380aam a2200529 i 4500 001 036A6A22B41B11E4B48B3FA5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 140815s2015 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2014027442 020 $a 9780374140342 020 $a 0374140340 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $e rda $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-pa 084 $a FIC000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Solomon, Asali, $e author. 245 10 $a Disgruntled / $c Asali Solomon. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $c 2015. 300 $a 285 pages ; $c 22 cm 510 4 $a Booklist, $c October 15, 2014 510 4 $a Publishers Weekly, $c December 01, 2014 510 4 $a Kirkus Reviews, $c December 01, 2014 510 4 $a Booklist Starred Reviews, 520 $a "An elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who's ever felt the shame of being alive Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she's different, even if she can't put her finger on how or why. It's not because she's Black--most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are too. Maybe it's because she celebrates Kwanzaa, or because she's forbidden from reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Maybe it's because she calls her father--a housepainter-slash-philosopher--"Baba" instead of "Daddy," or because her parents' friends gather to pour out libations "from the Creator, for the Martyrs" and discuss "the community." Kenya does know that it's connected to what her Baba calls "the shame of being alive"--a shame that only grows deeper and more complex over the course of Asali Solomon's long-awaited debut novel. Disgruntled, effortlessly funny and achingly poignant, follows Kenya from West Philadelphia to the suburbs, from public school to private, from childhood through adolescence, as she grows increasingly disgruntled by her inability to find any place or thing or person that feels like home. A coming-of-age tale, a portrait of Philadelphia in the late eighties and early nineties, an examination of the impossible double-binds of race, Disgruntled is a novel about the desire to rise above the limitations of the narratives we're given and the painful struggle to craft fresh ones we can call our own"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Novel about a young black girl coming of age in Philadelphia in the late '80s and early '90s"-- $c Provided by publisher. 521 1 $a Adult. $b Brodart 521 2 $a Adult. $b Brodart 650 0 $a African American girls $z Philadelphia $z Philadelphia $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Philadelphia (Pa.) $x HIstory $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 12 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305034210.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230203012335.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909034149.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204075657.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110061614.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20191211011732.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006083134.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180109041735.0 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20160503012204.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20160202093942.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926031824.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20150515012059.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=036A6A22B41B11E4B48B3FA5DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search