Break This House
General fiction, Family stories, Multi-cultural fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
From Printz honoree and National Book Award Finalist Candice Iloh, a prose novel about a teenager reckoning with her family&’s—and her home town's—secrets.Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made… lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she&’s moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah&’s new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home.