Orphea Proud
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.30 (997 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007PMG2I0 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a place where wise old ladies live and boys act like horses.This is a vision of love that was crushed and brought back to life. And this is my story. HOT ICETaboo to the touchA fire in the coldThat was usWelcome to a stage, where a soaring painting takes shape before your eyes, a big-booty poet stands at the mike, and there’s a seat right in front, just for you. I’m Orphea Proud. Welcome to the show.As Orphea, who discovers her sexuality as a lesbian, shares her story, powerful questions of family, prejudice, and identity are explored.
Sharon Dennis Wyeth brings a variety of experiences to her work as an author for young readers. . She has been a family counselor, television writer, and actress, and is a cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College. Sharon Dennis Wyeth enjoys singing, hiking, cooking, and gardening. Commended by Publishers Weekly for "her compassionate rendering of contemporary families," she is the first recipient of th
Still, aspiring poets or teens questioning their sexuality will be especially moved by Orphea's struggle to verbalize her overwhelming experience: her electrifying first love, her grief, her violently homophobic brother, and the comfort and self-awareness she discovers by reconnecting with her dead mother's family. From Booklist Gr. Many readers, especially fans of Linda Oatman High's Sister Slam and the Poetic Motormouth Road Trip BKL My 1 04, will connect with Wyeth's multicultural teens who learn to save their own lives by expressing themselves through words. Orphea's long narrative passages, interrupted by her short poems and reminders to club patrons to order food and drinks, are too lengthy to read as performance pieces, and the disjointed format is often more distracting than successful. 7-12. Wyeth's conceit--that Orphea narrates the novel in a single stage session before an audience--doesn't entirely work. All rights reserved. Gi
To quote publisher's weekly "Orphea Proud tells her "love story" as a performance piece, also sprinkling some poetry into the mix. She talks about losing her preacher father at age seven, the death of her mother the following year, and about being raised by her strict half-brother and his wife. At age 10, she meets Lissa, and they become best friends. But years later Orphea feels "panic" as she realizes she is in love with Lissa. When her brother, Rupert, catches the 16-year-olds in bed, he beats Orphea, and Lissa, hurriedly driving away in the snow, crashes and dies. There is a lot of tragedy for readers to swallow, and the preacher. "Doesn't live up to its potential" according to NotPrettyEnough. I really, *really* wanted to like this book. It was set up like an open mic show, with a teenage girl telling the story of how she came to terms with her sexuality through narrative and poetry. She was black and her lover was white, so there was also a race dynamic in there. I'm interested in sexuality issues and racial issues and young adult novels written in creative ways, so I was super excited to read this.While I appreciate Wyeth for bringing a Black protagonist into the gay young adult genre, and while I admire *any* writer who is willing to tackle this difficult subject for any age group, I was grea. "Strike a Pose!" according to H.L. Sudler. If Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Orphea Proud is any indication of the direction of children's literature, may all kids henceforth be gifted with iPods, Xboxes, and Game Boys, which will undoubtedly require of them more brain cells than this book. At its best, Orphea Proud is an affront to both creative writing and the art of storytelling with its faux sincerity and patronizing passages. At its worst, it is filled with candy coated scenarios, resulting in one hundred and eighty-nine pages of potential energy that never turns kinetic. Its "life is a box full of chocolates" type of philosophy is pure fantasy, even f