Alma Presses Play, Tina Cane
Alma Presses Play, Tina Cane
List: $15.00 | Sale: $10.50
Club: $7.50

Alma Presses Play

Author: Tina Cane

Narrator: Dana Wing Lau

Unabridged: 5 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2021

Synopsis

A lyrical novel-in-verse that takes us through the journey of coming of age in New York during the 80s.

Alma's life is a series of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and she's halfway through becoming a woman. But as long as she can listen to her Walkman, hang out with her friends on the stoops of the Village, and ride her bike around the streets of New York, it feels like everything will be all right. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents divorce and--just like that--her life as she knew it is over. In this world of confusing beginnings, middles, and endings, is Alma ready to press play on the soundtrack of her life?
 

 

About The Author

Tina Cane grew up in downtown New York City during the 70s and 80s, surrounded by artists and writers and musicians, and she draws much of her creative inspiration from that era. The founder/ director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, Tina also currently serves as the poet laureate of Rhode Island where she lives with her husband and three children, who are also a major source of inspiration. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa

Thank you to NetGalley and Make Me a World for the free e-ARC in exchange for an honest review! Alma Presses Play follows a preteen half-Chinese, half-Jewish girl living in 1980's New York. This book is in verse, which I usually love because it adds so much beauty and meaning to ordinary words. I was......more

Goodreads review by Raina

Alma is thirteen. It’s the early 1980s, and Alma lives in the Village in New York City. She listens to her Walkman, hangs out on the roof with her friends, avoids eye contact with the Girls who stand in doorways, and buys Mary Janes candy to eat. She might be about to have her first kiss. Her parent......more

Goodreads review by Teresa

Thank you to NetGalley, Random House Children's, and Tina Cane for the opportunity to read Alma Presses Play in exchange for an honest review. This book claims to be a novel-in-verse, and while it certainly has its poetic elements, it wasn't quite like the other novels-in-verse that I have read befor......more

Goodreads review by Dharma

Reread August 2023. I absolutely adore this book. I love the writing style, and each chapter makes me feel like I know Alma and her world.......more

Goodreads review by Yukai

This YA in- verse was quite good . The story quite interesting but it just felt a little underwhelming.......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List