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Everything Within and In Between by Nikki Barthelmess
4.0
An emotional and honest coming-of-age contemporary filled with heart.
Everything Within and In Between is an introspective story of a biracial teen's journey to reclaim and reconnect with her Latinx heritage after being told to squash it her whole life. It's about absent parents and toll they take. It's about friendships old, new, healthy and toxic. It's about so much of what comes with becoming a teen, e.g. academic expectations, crushes and discovering you limits, beliefs and sense of self. It's about privilege, prejudice and racism. It's about realising the people you've surrounded yourself with might not be the kind of people you once thought they were. It's about all that and so much more.
The cast of characters were superb, the relationships brilliantly explored and the story heartfelt, thoughtful, poignant. I loved it. I would also 10/10 recommend the audiobook, as Frankie Corzo's narration was (as always) superb.
TW: racism, microagressions, substance abuse, sexual harassment, absent parent
Everything Within and In Between is an introspective story of a biracial teen's journey to reclaim and reconnect with her Latinx heritage after being told to squash it her whole life. It's about absent parents and toll they take. It's about friendships old, new, healthy and toxic. It's about so much of what comes with becoming a teen, e.g. academic expectations, crushes and discovering you limits, beliefs and sense of self. It's about privilege, prejudice and racism. It's about realising the people you've surrounded yourself with might not be the kind of people you once thought they were. It's about all that and so much more.
The cast of characters were superb, the relationships brilliantly explored and the story heartfelt, thoughtful, poignant. I loved it. I would also 10/10 recommend the audiobook, as Frankie Corzo's narration was (as always) superb.
TW: racism, microagressions, substance abuse, sexual harassment, absent parent