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About the Book:
Title: WHO PUT THIS SONG ON?
Author: Morgan Parker
Pub. Date: September 24, 2018
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 336
In the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and Girl in
Pieces, comes poet Morgan Parker's pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage
girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression
as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely ignored.
Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia,
seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she's in therapy. She can't count the
number of times she's been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been
teased for her "weird" outfits, and been told she's not
"really" black. Also, she's spent most of her summer crying in bed.
So there's that, too.
Lately, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same
terrible track on repeat--and it's telling them how to feel, who to vote for,
what to believe. Morgan wonders, when can she turn this song off and begin
living for herself?
Life may be a never-ending hamster wheel of agony, but Morgan
finds her crew of fellow outcasts, blasts music like there's no tomorrow,
discovers what being black means to her, and finally puts her mental health
first. She decides that, no matter what, she will always be intense,
ridiculous, passionate, and sometimes hilarious. After all, darkness doesn't
have to be a bad thing. Darkness is just real.
Loosely based on her own teenage life and diaries, this incredible
debut by award-winning poet Morgan Parker will make readers stand up and cheer
for a girl brave enough to live life on her own terms--and for themselves.
Morgan Parker is the author
of the poetry collections Magical Negro (Tin House 2019), There Are More
Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House 2017), and Other People’s Comfort
Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015). Her debut young adult novel Who Put
This Song On? will be released by Delacorte Press on September 24, 2019. A
debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World/ Random House. Parker
received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia
University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. She is the recipient of a 2017
National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016
Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. Parker is the creator and
host of Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel. With Tommy Pico, she co-curates
the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series, and with Angel Nafis, she is The
Other Black Girl Collective. Morgan is a Sagittarius, and she lives in Los
Angeles.
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