Une pure merveille !
Un roman d'une grande beauté, drôle, fin, extrêmement lumineux sur des sujets difficiles : la perte de
l'être aimé, la dureté de la vie et la tristesse qu'on barricade parfois... Elise franco-japonaise,
orpheline de sa maman veut poser LA question à son père et elle en trouvera le courage au fil des pages,
grâce au retour de sa grand-mère du japon, de sa rencontre avec son extravagante amie Stella..
Ensemble il ne diront plus Sayonara mais Mata Ne !
Antonio and Natasha are seventeen and in love. They spend their days hanging out in Harlem and dreaming of moving together. Suddenly Antonio finds himself...
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Antonio and Natasha are seventeen and in love. They spend their days hanging out in Harlem and dreaming of moving together. Suddenly Antonio finds himself thrown in jail, accused of murdering his own father. Locked away "upstate", he and Natasha embark on a series of heartbreaking letters as they attempt to keep their relationship going across a great divide. Utterly compelling and true, Upstate is a wild and exhilarating novel that grabs you from the first page to the last.
Kalisha Buckhanon was born in 1977. She has taught creative writing and literacy to adults in Harlem, Brooklyn , the Bronx, Chicago and her hometown of Kankakee, Illinois. Upstate is her first novel.