She grew up in a rich suburb of New York, but after her parents abruptly split up, Nevaeh has to go back and forth between her mom’s family’s house in Harlem and her dad’s house in the ‘burbs-while commuting to her school in Riverdale, a tony neighborhood in the Bronx. Nevaeh is the child of a Black woman from Harlem, and a Jewish father from Connecticut. And “Color Me In” did not disappoint.īeing a teenager is really about finding yourself (and arguing with your parents), and I imagine the former is even more complicated when your identity is intersectional and external factors inform so much of who you think you are. I forgot to cancel my Book of the Month subscription after last month’s controversy around how they treated a Black influencer, so I made sure to choose books by women of color for my last hurrah in July. Review: I don’t read a ton of YA, but when I do, I always enjoy it. Trigger Warnings: violence against Black people, racism (macro- and micro-aggressions) Will she continue to let circumstances dictate her path? Or will she decide once for all who and where she is meant to be? Only when Nevaeh stumbles upon a secret from her mom's past, finds herself falling in love, and sees firsthand the prejudice her family faces that she begins to realize she has her own voice.
But rather than take a stand, Nevaeh does what she's always done when life gets complicated: she stays silent. In the meantime, Nevaeh's dad decides that she should have a belated bat mitzvah instead of a sweet sixteen, which guarantees social humiliation at her posh private school. Nevaeh wants to get to know her extended family, but because she inadvertently passes as white, her cousin thinks she's too privileged, pampered, and selfish to relate to the injustices African Americans face on a daily basis. When her Black mom and Jewish dad split up, she relocates to her mom's family home in Harlem and is forced to confront her identity for the first time. Publisher Synopsis: Growing up in an affluent suburb of New York City, sixteen-year-old Nevaeh Levitz never thought much about her biracial roots.
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