REVIEW BY MEREDITH MCKINNIE “My central claim in this book is that these two trends—overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are the major reasons why children born after 1995 became the anxious generation.” In Jonathan Haidt’s most recent nonfiction book, the author ...
“He can guess, but he won’t ever know, not really. What it was like, what she was thinking, everything she’d never told him.” Celeste Ng’s compelling novel Everything I Never Told You gifts readers with hindsight, the past of a young girl with no future. The novel opens with 16-year-old Lydia missing...
“Sometimes it seems like writing is the only way I keep from hurting.” In Acevedo’s coming-of-age novel, Xiomara Batiste (nicknamed X) experiences the universal struggle of selfhood, learning who she is amidst the pressure of who her parents want her to be. X finds solace in her brother Xavier, whom ...
