Title:Call Me Sonya Grey: A Young Girl’s Poems About Death, Life, and Adolescence
Author: Sonya Tupone Lloyd
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This personal collection of poetic verse is at once inspiring and challenging. Beginnng with the loss of her mother at age nine, Sonya began collecting her thoughts in 40 poems in a diary from early childhood through her twenties. She describes the daily battles of self-image and self-expression she experienced growing up after the passing of one parent and the estrangement of another. With the death of her mother, Sonya lost a part of everything she had known. Two states away, she finds herself with a different family, school, friends, home and a new name. The verses written during this time are one woman’s exploration of her raw, emotional responses to dramatic life changes. This is Sonya's story.
This collection of poems written by a young girl, beginnings at age nine, and finally by the young woman she becomes. She started writing following the death of her mother and the poems explore her fears, guilt, anger and wonder surrounding her life.
Her writing is intriguing and I found myself reading faster to get to the next phase of her life. She explores her emotions and some of them are very painful. She puts her emotions out there for all to read as only a young girl can. My heart breaks for her as she works through what is happening around her in terms of family and coming to terms with growing up and becoming an independent woman.
Author: Sonya Tupone Lloyd
Rating:
Synopsis:
This personal collection of poetic verse is at once inspiring and challenging. Beginnng with the loss of her mother at age nine, Sonya began collecting her thoughts in 40 poems in a diary from early childhood through her twenties. She describes the daily battles of self-image and self-expression she experienced growing up after the passing of one parent and the estrangement of another. With the death of her mother, Sonya lost a part of everything she had known. Two states away, she finds herself with a different family, school, friends, home and a new name. The verses written during this time are one woman’s exploration of her raw, emotional responses to dramatic life changes. This is Sonya's story.
This collection of poems written by a young girl, beginnings at age nine, and finally by the young woman she becomes. She started writing following the death of her mother and the poems explore her fears, guilt, anger and wonder surrounding her life.
Her writing is intriguing and I found myself reading faster to get to the next phase of her life. She explores her emotions and some of them are very painful. She puts her emotions out there for all to read as only a young girl can. My heart breaks for her as she works through what is happening around her in terms of family and coming to terms with growing up and becoming an independent woman.
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