5/26/2023 0 Comments We come apart sarah crossan![]() ![]() ![]() Nicu, who’s Roma and brown-skinned, narrates in an unrealistic and dehumanizing broken English (“Her touching help peace my mental / and my body”). Jess, who’s white, narrates in standard English with touches of vernacular to convey her class. In alternating chapters, they each narrate in first-person free verse. The two underdogs meet in a community service program for kids caught stealing and share a mild romance born of desperation. Jess has always lived in North London, trapped by a stepfather who beats her mother and makes Jess record it on his phone. He and his parents came from Romania because now that Nicu is a grown man at age 15, his father must earn money to pay for an arranged bride for Nicu back in Romania (against Nicu’s wishes). Nicu arrived in “London North” only a month ago. ![]()
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