Like Vanessa -

Tami Charles

Charlesbridge

2018

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-10: 1580897770

In this semi-autobiographical debut novel set in 1983, Vanessa Martin's real-life reality of living with family in public housing in Newark, New Jersey is a far cry from the glamorous Miss America stage. She struggles with an incarcerated mother she barely remembers, a grandfather dealing with addiction and her own battle with self-confidence. But when a new teacher at school coordinates a beauty pageant and convinces Vanessa to enter, Vanessa's view of her own world begins to change. Vanessa discovers that her own self-worth is more than the scores of her talent performance and her interview answers, and that she doesn't need a crown to be comfortable in her own skin and see her own true beauty.

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Thanks, Netgalley, for the ARC

"Like Vanessa" is a book about Vanessa Martin, a teenage black and fat girl. Vanessa wants to enter a pageant since her dream is being a Miss America winner.

This book reminded me of Dumplin' at the beggining, but it has nothing to do with that. That's such a necessary book about oppressed people trying to get space at a padronized world.

I loved Vanessa and TJ with all my heart.

This is such a well constructed story and we all need to read that.