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Title details for Color Outside the Lines by Various - Available

Color Outside the Lines

Stories about Love

by Various
Sangu Mandanna
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This modern, groundbreaking YA anthology explores the complexity and beauty of interracial and LGBTQ+ relationships where differences are front and center. When people ask me what this anthology is about, I'm often tempted to give them the complicated answer: it's about race, and about how being different from the person you love can matter but how it can also not matter, and it's about Chinese pirate ghosts, black girl vigilantes, colonial India, a flower festival, a garden of poisons, and so, so much else. Honestly, though? I think the answer's much simpler than that. Color outside the Lines is a collection of stories about young, fierce, brilliantly hopeful people in love.-Sangu Mandanna, editor of Color outside the Lines

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  • Release date

    February 1, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781980048732
      • File size: 241462 KB
      • Duration: 08:23:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Listeners will find themselves drawn into the hope and possibility of young love with this powerful and inclusive anthology. The stories feature individuals within the queer community who are representative of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds. The ensemble of narrators adds to the varied stories and infuses the selections with empathy and compassion. The narrators are well matched to stories that address multiple issues in their depictions of love: family, acceptance, difference, class, discrimination, acceptance, and more. There are several standouts including "Turn the Sky to Petals" and "Gilman Street," narrated by Maria Liatis, "Your Life Matters," narrated by Channie Waites, and "The Boy Is," narrated by Catherine Ho. K.S.M. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from September 30, 2019
      In her editing debut, Mandanna produces a stunning collection of refreshing stories about love and identity among diverse young people. After being targeted by the same bully, a Jewish girl and a boy from India reclaim their power together in Lauren Gibaldi’s “What We Love.” A different kind of power surfaces in “Your Life Matters,” by L.L. McKinney, in which a young black superheroine puts herself in harm’s way to save her girlfriend’s father, a racist police officer, forcing him to rethink his views. “The Boy Is,” by Elsie Chapman, follows Holly, a Chinese-American girl, who feels forced to choose between a fellow child of Chinese immigrants or a white boy, whom her mother hopes will help her be seen as fully American. Each well-crafted story feels like a pearl, and strung together, they create something beautiful and unique. Featuring couples who are queer, interracial, or both, this an anthology that beautifully reflects the multifaceted reality of our world. Ages 14–up.

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  • English

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