[English Spotlight] "In the Neighborhood of True" by Susan Kaplan Carlton | Blogtour

Ah, lo so - vi chiederete se non ho per caso duplicato per errore il post perché effettivamente ne avete già visto uno simile. 

L'anno scorso, quando ho letto il libro. 

Ma oggi lo rivedete perché viene pubblicato nuovamente, ma stavolta in flessibile. E siccome è un libro che insegna che la tolleranza religiosa e razziale sono importanti, credo che non esista un periodo migliore di questo per dargli ancora una volta un po' di luce. 

First of all, thanks to Kelly from Algonquin Books for inviting me to be a part of this blogtour. 

 In the Neighborhood of True was published last year, but today you get to see it again as a paperback. And since it's a book about how much religious and racial tolerance are important, I believe that there's no better time than this to give it some light once again. 

Today I'm gonna introduce you to the book, but you can already read my English review on Goodreads and NetGalley. 

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IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF TRUE

by SUSAN KAPLAN CARLTON

After her father’s death, Ruth Robb and her family transplant themselves in the summer of 1958 from New York City to Atlanta—the land of debutantes, sweet tea, and the Ku Klux Klan. In her new hometown, Ruth quickly figures out she can be Jewish or she can be popular, but she can’t be both. Eager to fit in with the blond girls in the “pastel posse,” Ruth decides to hide her religion. Before she knows it, she is falling for the handsome and charming Davis and sipping Cokes with him and his friends at the all-white, all-Christian Club. Does it matter that Ruth’s mother makes her attend services at the local synagogue every week? Not as long as nobody outside her family knows the truth. At temple, Ruth meets Max, who is serious and intense about the fight for social justice, and now she is caught between two worlds, two religions, and two boys. But when a violent hate crime brings the different parts of Ruth’s life into sharp conflict, she will have to choose between all she’s come to love about her new life and standing up for what she believes. 

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SUSAN KAPLAN CARLTON currently teaches writing at Boston University. She is the author of the YA novels Love & Haight and Lobsterland. Her writing has also appeared in Self, Elle, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen. She lived for a time with her family in Atlanta, where her daughters learned the finer points of etiquette from a little pink book and the power of social justice from their synagogue.

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Recensione italiana QUI.