Blended av Sharon B Draper

 

Eleven-year-old Isabella's blended family is more divided than ever in this ';timely but genuine' (Publishers Weekly) story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper.Eleven-year-old Isabella's parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she's Isabella with her dad, his girlfriend Anastasia, and her son Darren living in a fancy house where they are one of the only black families in the neighborhood. The next week she's Izzy with her mom and her boyfriend John-Mark in a small, not-so-fancy house that she loves. Because of this, Isabella has always felt pulled between two worlds. And now that her parents are divorced, it seems their fights are even worse, and they're always about HER. Isabella feels completely stuck in the middle, split and divided between them more than ever. And she is beginning to realize that being split between Mom and Dad involves more than switching houses, switching nicknames, switching backpacks: it's also about switching identities. Her dad is black, her mom is white, and strangers are always commenting: ';You're so exotic!' ';You look so unusual.' ';But what are you really?' She knows what they're really saying: ';You don't look like your parents.' ';You're different.' ';What race are you really?' And when her parents, who both get engaged at the same time, get in their biggest fight ever, Isabella doesn't just feel divided, she feels ripped in two. What does it mean to be half white or half black? To belong to half mom and half dad? And if you're only seen as half of this and half of that, hwo can you even feel whole? It seems some nofhing can bring Isabellas´s family togheter again until the whorst thing happens, Isabella and Darren are stopped by the polica. A cell phone is mistaken for a gun. A shot is fired.

Bokomslag och beskrivning hämtad fråBokus.

Hade hört att denna bok var en bra beskrivning av en liten flickas uppfattning om att vara både svart och vit och vad hon behövde göra för att komma till sanning till hur hon skulle lev sitt liv.

Men jag trodde inte att en barnbok skulle få mig så fängslade för Isabellas liv som skilsmässobarn där föräldrarna har delad vårdnad och där föräldrarna faktiskt inte hantera situationen så bra och många skadar henne för att de inte kan komma överrens.

Men sen handlar den även en hel del om rasism, som är sann för de flesta i USA även om jag helst inte skulle vilja att det är så, och slutet får mig helt upplöst i tårar.

Tror inte ens min recension ger denna bok rättvisa jag bara önskar att ni läste den alla.