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Cargando... The Airless Year (edición 2022)por Adam P. Knave (Autor), Valentine Barker (Ilustrador), Frank Cvetkovic (Ilustrador)
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For Kacee, a queer Black girl in middle school, everything feels like a struggle, but when she fails a class as a result of her stress and ends up in summer school, she begins to discover her own power to improve the things in her life she can control. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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(Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss.)
THE AIRLESS YEAR follows a young adult named Kacee as she navigates a calendar year in middle school - hard enough on its own, but she's failing math and French; her two besties are also warring twin siblings; her parents are the worst; and she's a queer, Black girl with an unrequited crush on a super-cool nonbinary artist. In order to "succeed" - in school and relationships - she has to learn who she is, what matters most to her, and how to ask for (and accept) help.
I really wanted to like THE AIRLESS YEAR, but the story mostly fell flat for me. Maybe it's because I'm not the intended audience - it's been decades since I was Kacee's age - but very little here struck a chord in me. It's not that Kacee's struggles aren't relatable; I still remember what it felt like to be 13, impossibly awkward, and with few friends to fall back on (or at least I think I do / still am, I guess). Rather, the story just felt underwhelming.
One example: Kacee's family dynamics. Kacee is a dark-skinned Black girl; her mother is Black, but lighter-skinned, and dad is very clearly white. Both parents are kind of terrible - unsupportive scolds who badger Kacee night and day without offering any actual help, and who actively mock her (few) friends (!) - but Dad is clearly the worse of the two. One word comes to mind when describing his behavior: misogynoir. But, since race isn't really discussed at all, we're mostly left guessing over this guy.
(Yes, it's great to create a diverse story without having to actively address things like race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity and orientation, and religion ad nauseam, but I feel like throwing in an overbearing white dad without explanation is questionable at best.)
The artwork is a bit of a mixed bag for me. Whereas the alien landscapes Kacee escapes to her in head are quite lovely, I'm not a huge fan of the people - everyone has the same weird, lumpy shape and oddly shaped head. Definitely a distraction. ( )