Calling My Name
- Author: Liara Tamani
- Narrator: Imani Parks
- Publisher: Greenwillow Books
- Duration: 6:33:13
Synopsis
Calling My Name, by debut author Liara Tamani, is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.
This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas, and it deftly and beautifully explores the universal struggles of growing up, battling family expectations, discovering a sense of self, and finding a unique voice and purpose.
Told in fifty-three short, episodic, moving, and iridescent chapters, Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school. Literary and noteworthy, this is a beauty of a novel that deftly captures the multifaceted struggle of finding where you belong and why you matter.
Chapters
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001 Calling My Name
Duration: 27s -
002 A Movement
Duration: 12min -
003 Kickball on Christmas Eve
Duration: 09min -
004 Breathing Room
Duration: 02min -
005 Hungry Sunday
Duration: 15min -
006 The Sweetest Thing
Duration: 15min -
007 Freestyle
Duration: 16min -
008 Solo
Duration: 15min -
009 In the Middle
Duration: 18min -
010 Turquoise Sky
Duration: 06min -
011 Black-Infested
Duration: 02min -
012 Gold Hoops
Duration: 05min -
013 A Dirty Secret
Duration: 08min -
014 Deep Dimples
Duration: 06min -
015 Chocolate Mourning
Duration: 04min -
016 About Time
Duration: 04min -
017 Waves
Duration: 10min -
018 God Don't Like Ugly
Duration: 07min -
019 On Your Marks
Duration: 09min -
020 The Good news
Duration: 07min