Losing My Accent (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Described as a female ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and compared to The Basketball Diaries, Losing My Accent was slated to become a publisher’s gem, but was shelved due to the author’s refusal to remove some controversial scenes. Until now. A teenage narrator—smart, talented and funny— transplanted from London, navigates the world of New York’s post-9/11 East Village. With an always-watchful eye on her dysfunctional rock-musician single-mother, her pseudo-gangsta young brother, and her peer culture, we experience the city and her coming-of-age through this diary-like chronicle. In short pop-song-esque chapters, the novel is both hysterically comedic and heartbreakingly tragic, but most of all, whip-smart.