She's also just rebel enough to test all those limits, knowing she must if she's going to find herself underneath them.
She's just enough aware of the local status quo to have an interior monologue that's a spinning-plates act: her mother thinks she's too black, her boyfriend thinks she's too ungrateful, her crush thinks she's too sheltered.
prep school who's trying to navigate the social minefield just long enough to make a run for Stanford. Our heroine is Bird, a high school senior at an elite Washington, D.C. Love Is the Drug, the newest young adult novel from Alaya Dawn Johnson, is preoccupied with that very question it's a world on the edge of dystopia, and it's all very real indeed. The overarching question: How do these new orders ever begin? Complaints about these high-concept stories often, and with varying legitimacy, exist in the Hows. Though some dystopias are bound to seem more plausible than others, the nature of these stories, especially those written for young adults - the heightened fable of the premise (with all the eye-rolling this can sometimes provoke) and the realistic teenage psyches being mapped on top of them - usually means that the books open in an established status quo. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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