The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta Release Date: August 8, 2019 Goodreads Link Author Website Why I love this book: Books written in verse are a magical thing, the words can dance across the page, and the fact that they take up a smaller space sometimes can hide the fact that they dig in deep to complicated ideas and themes, the story unfolding in ways that latch onto your heart. From the jump this book hooked me. At the heart of the story is Michael Angeli who, through the course of the story we see grow up and contend with who he is and who he wants to be. This is a story about identity and how you can change and grow and become someone new. What I particularly loved about this story was the sheer volume of Michaels life that we got to see. Often times we see a snippit of a life, a few months or a few years, maybe it's centered on a specific event or life changing moment... here we see a life lived from early childhood and into college, we see all those small moments that shape who we are and who we become. Things that happen in small and quiet ways that stick with is across time, that become the building blocks of the person we turn into. Those stories often get lost in a bigger narrative, buried beneath the moments that are loud and exciting, but those little things are just as important and Atta takes those and strings them together to create a moving story that deals with the hard things in life, while still reminding us that there is beauty everywhere if we just open our eyes and see it.
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