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Everyone has an image of Laura Li, the most popular girl in school: "stone hearted", "warmhearted", "conceited deceiver", "humble achiever", "a virgin", "the hottest girl in the world".
Award-winning poet Mel Glenn weaves a brilliant web of authentic voices in this riveting story, told in poetry, about what happens when one teenage girl is denied the freedom to determine her own identity.
2001 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA) and Books for the Teen Age 2001 (NYPL)
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 8 Up-This novel is about stereotypes, misconceptions, and public vs. private personas. The central figure is Laura Li, an immigrant from China whose life revolves around Tower High School and her family responsibilities. Her businessman father is never around and, in speaking to her mother, the girl says, "-Mother, I will do anything you ask,/To prove that a second-born/Can take first place in your heart." She wonders where to turn for an identity, a purpose. In another selection, she states, "I think God has an answering machine./He's never home, though,-./In the meantime, I wonder,/Does He ever check His messages?" The poems and dialogue exchanges, many of which take place in the library, provide glimpses of classmates, faculty, and family, and all offer insights into Laura Li's life, as well as the life the others think she leads. The action is easy to follow, and although there are too many characters for any of them to be developed in much depth, their entries help to flesh out the story line. The narrative shifts gears several times, and readers may be caught off guard by the teen's suicide. A powerful look at perceptions and what lies behind them.-Sharon Korbeck, Waupaca Area Public Library, WI (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
Chinese-American high school student Laura Li, beautiful and brainy, has an outwardly perfect but inwardly troubled life. Seeking release from her distant, controlling mother and her obligations caring for a disabled older brother, Laura eventually commits suicide. Poems told in her voice, as well as those of her family, classmates, and teachers, are limned with sharpness and immediacy. From HORN BOOK Spring 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Glenn (Foreign Exchange, 1999, etc.) returns to his favorite setting, turbulent Tower High, for more teen melodrama cast in short, mostly free verse, poems. Here readers meet Laura Li, a bright, beautiful, popular library monitor whose outward perfection masks inward fury, shame and hurt: because her businessman father is seldom home; because she's looking at a lifetime of caring for her disabled older brother; because her mother, whose heart is still back in China, heaps her with verbal and physical abuse at any sign of willfulness. Glenn develops Laura's character, then traces her rebellion from furtive beginnings to eventual suicide, indirectly, in a series of thoughts, comments, reactions and snatches of dialogue delivered by dozens of schoolmates and adults. His view of the adolescent landscape (and the adult one, too) is bleak, unrelieved by flat efforts to lighten the tone with concrete poems labeled `Library Fun`; still, there are occasional flickers of optimism in the simmering mix of confusion, anger and despair, and readers will find echoes in their own lives of many of the voices and attitudes here. Deeply felt, if not particularly profound. (Fiction. YA) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Gr. 9^-12. This series of sharply focused vignettes in verse, resembling a kaleidoscope more than a split image, centers on Chinese American high-school student Laura Li, stunning, smart, and rebellious, who is chafing under her mother's tight rein and her obligations to her disabled older brother. Each poem takes the point of view and the voice of one character: Laura herself, her mother, her father, and her brother; Ms. Binder, the-high school librarian; Alejandro, who loves Laura; Tyesha, Lana, Yana, and Amy, girls who see Laura as friend, rival, and enemy. These voices and others, from teachers to drug dealers, work like acid on copperplate to etch the outlines of Laura's life: her feverish weekend escapes into bars; her weekday refuge working in the library. The final tragedy, Laura Li's suicide (in the library), is a personal blow to the characters who have reacted to, defined, and described the troubled girl. Written with raw immediacy, this will touch teens deep down. --GraceAnne A. DeCandido