Calling My Name

Name: Calling My Name
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Liara Tamani
ISBN: 9780062688293

Author: Liara Tamani

Narrator: Imani Parks

Unabridged: 6 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Greenwillow Books

Published: 10/24/2017

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Family, Children's Fiction, African American & Black Stories

Synopsis

Calling My Name, by debut author Liara Tamani, is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and it deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose.Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that deftly captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.

About Liara Tamani

Liara Tamani holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA from Duke University. She is the author of the acclaimed young adult novels Calling My Name, a 2018 PEN America Literary Award Finalist and SCBWI Golden Kite Finalist; All the Things We Never Knew, a 2020 Kirkus Best YA Book of the Year; and What She Missed. Before becoming a writer, she attended Harvard Law School and worked as a marketing coordinator for the Houston Rockets and Comets, production assistant for Girlfriends (TV show), home accessories designer, floral designer, and yoga and dance teacher. She lives in Houston, Texas. liaratamani.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Candace on April 08, 2017

This is a quietly beautiful book. It's lyrical, soft and easy. It's a story that spans time with only light theme within it. There's no urgency and what kept me reading was the beautiful writing. While not in verse it had a similar feel to it. It has a theme of the MC being in a religious family and......more

Goodreads review by Cori on April 24, 2018

A beautiful little book told in vignettes, I enjoyed reading this one.......more

Goodreads review by Giulia on February 27, 2018

"I’m busy noticing I’m alive." I think this book went over my head at the speed of freaking light. ⚡️ 💨 *WOOOOOOOSH* 💨 Oh, what’s that?? This whole book, it seems. Reason for that I think is the writing style. Maybe I’m just too dumb but there was something off regarding the writing style. I can’t pinpo......more

Goodreads review by Booksandchinooks (Laurie) on January 09, 2018

I received a free copy of this book from Harper Collins Canada for an honest review. This story is told by Taja, from middle grade to high school, as she searches for who she really is and what she really believes. The book seems to take place around the early 90’s but we are never told this. Taja’s......more

Goodreads review by Jen on October 18, 2018

The rating applies to the book as a whole, if I were to pick it apart I would probably rate it lower which is a shame. I liked the sort of "Boyhood" layout of the story as we follow Tara from girlhood to the brink of adulthood. It was also nice to have a novel feature faith/religion without the norma......more