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IMPOSTER SYNDROME AND OTHER CONFESSIONS OF ALEJANDRA KIM
A lead title for Spring 2023
Alejandra Kim, a scholarship student at a progressive Manhattan prep school the kids call "Quaker Oats," has imposter syndrome, bad. Her peers, like best friend (and aspiring Supreme Court Justice) Laurel Greenblatt-Watkins, are quinoa-fed and sustainably-clothed denizens of brownstone Brooklyn who worry about tuition last to never. Ale doesn't even check off neatly into the POC box; her súper-Korean face and súper-Spanish name endlessly confuse "unwoke" classmates and teachers (especially Jonathan Brooks Garth, a small-minded visiting creative writing teacher). Ale is hoping against hope to get into the esteemed Whyder College -- she wants to leave her native Queens and put her father's mysterious death on the subway tracks last year behind her. The problem is, Whyder is Laurel's dream school, too; and at home, she can't get her mother to talk about Papi's death, much less put it behind them.
IMPOSTER SYNDROME charts Alejandra's senior year as she navigates growing pains, grief, best friendship, and identity politics. Patty's voice is fresh and funny, her talent on the page is awe-inspiring, and she has the lofty aspirations to match.
Patricia Park is the author of the acclaimed novel, RE JANE, a Korean-American reimagining of Brontë's JANE EYRE, named an Editors' Choice by the New York Times and winner of an American Library Association award. She is the recipient of creative writing fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, The Center for Fiction, the American Association of University Women, the Jerome Foundation, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and others. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Salon, Slice, and others. She received her BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College and her MFA in fiction from Boston University, where she studied with Ha Jin. Formerly a publicist at Ballantine Books, she is now Assistant Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University. She was born and raised in Queens and now lives in Brooklyn.
Alejandra Kim, a scholarship student at a progressive Manhattan prep school the kids call "Quaker Oats," has imposter syndrome, bad. Her peers, like best friend (and aspiring Supreme Court Justice) Laurel Greenblatt-Watkins, are quinoa-fed and sustainably-clothed denizens of brownstone Brooklyn who worry about tuition last to never. Ale doesn't even check off neatly into the POC box; her súper-Korean face and súper-Spanish name endlessly confuse "unwoke" classmates and teachers (especially Jonathan Brooks Garth, a small-minded visiting creative writing teacher). Ale is hoping against hope to get into the esteemed Whyder College -- she wants to leave her native Queens and put her father's mysterious death on the subway tracks last year behind her. The problem is, Whyder is Laurel's dream school, too; and at home, she can't get her mother to talk about Papi's death, much less put it behind them.
IMPOSTER SYNDROME charts Alejandra's senior year as she navigates growing pains, grief, best friendship, and identity politics. Patty's voice is fresh and funny, her talent on the page is awe-inspiring, and she has the lofty aspirations to match.
Patricia Park is the author of the acclaimed novel, RE JANE, a Korean-American reimagining of Brontë's JANE EYRE, named an Editors' Choice by the New York Times and winner of an American Library Association award. She is the recipient of creative writing fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, The Center for Fiction, the American Association of University Women, the Jerome Foundation, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and others. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Salon, Slice, and others. She received her BA in English Literature from Swarthmore College and her MFA in fiction from Boston University, where she studied with Ha Jin. Formerly a publicist at Ballantine Books, she is now Assistant Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at American University. She was born and raised in Queens and now lives in Brooklyn.
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Published 2023-02-01 by Crown Books For Young Readers |