Refuse Binding:Paperback One of the most acclaimed

One of the most acclaimed YA novels of the year

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ISBN: 0374614059

2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY

he realizes it might be time to stop hiding behind his snarky opinions and start living his life--along with the people who have found their way into his heart

Refuse Binding:Paperback One of the most acclaimedSet against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape. Mapping the relationship between father and son caught in a lineage of grief and inherited Black trauma, Randall conjures reflections from mythical figures such as Icarus, Narcissus and the absent Frank Ocean. Not merely a story of the wound