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HOPE NATION by Rose Brock

HOPE NATION

YA Authors Share Personal Moments Of Inspiration

edited by Rose Brock

Pub Date: Feb. 27th, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5247-4167-9
Publisher: Philomel

Hope Nation brings together 24 top young adult authors who share personal essays about hope.

Their audience is teenagers, but this collection is a treasure trove of wisdom for older readers too. It achieves this with stories from a wide array of perspectives and diverse identities: the struggles of being Muslim in a post–9/11 world as described by Aisha Saeed, the complex constrictions of life in the closet made plain by Alex London, and the terrifying anxieties of being black in contemporary America by Nic Stone, among others. Even if these authors’ stories do not exactly mirror each of their readers’, together they open the door to an investigation of what hope means. Although it can mean different things and present itself in innumerable ways, the underlying message of this anthology is that it is important to cling to hope: Use hope as a flashlight, a mantra, a walking stick, a tool for every circumstance life throws at human beings. This work comes at a crucial time, as many people struggle to find hope in a confusing and disappointing world.

A salve when days are bleak.

(Nonfiction anthology. 14-adult)