With the science that keeps our bodies alive. Names outgrow you, like a garden left untended Their favorite play was A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Like I still say, Jim and Marcia were really into Shakespeare, With a name like Moth, we were the musketeers of night. Like I still say, Zachary was a pyromaniac, which is probably why, She was great at dancing before she stopped.ĭanced at Julliard, been the next Misty Copeland. When I die people will still say, ( Moth),
Given or replaced, names hang to your bones like forever suites.
That’s what my parents (Jim & Marcia) named me.ĭidn’t like the name her parents (William & Juliet) gave her. When the two decide to take a road trip together, they explore questions of identity and belonging, survival and spirituality, and begin to understand what their existence owes to their ancestors. There is only one boy who notices her-a kind, wonderful and gentle soul, Sani. In stunning verse, we enter the viewpoint of Moth-a sensitive, adolescent girl who feels shunned and unseen by the world. Me (Moth) was a 2021 National Book Award Finalist, and the debut, young-adult verse novel for author Amber McBride. “Two years after a devastating car accident killed her family as they drove from New York to northern Virginia, aspiring dancer Moth, the Black granddaughter of a Hoodoo rootworker, is still navigating the accident’s fallout…When a new student-talented Navajo musician Sani-shows up in her junior homeroom class, Moth finds a kindred spirit whose similarly painful past and physically abusive stepfather compound his depression.”-Publishers Weekly Padma creates the prompts based on a book from one of our Highlights Foundation faculty, and Chef Amanda shares a recipe from the kitchen at the Barn. Every month, our Chef Amanda and author Padma Venkatraman pair up to share a recipe and writing prompt for our Highlights Foundation family.
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