Ismée Williams
Author of This Train Is Being Held
Works by Ismée Williams
Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities (2023) — Editor — 22 copies
This train is being held 1 copy
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Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural… by Ismée Williams
A collection of twenty fiction works with the common theme of the struggles of teenagers of mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds coming to terms with their own community and with society at large. What is great here is the wide variety of story themes and the consistency of the quality writing from a plethora of authors. This is a really good collection for teenagers for it deals with universal problems that they have.
3.5 Stars
CW:Overdose (likely intentional), mental health (depression, bipolar), racism and racial profiling, gangs
Another pleasant surprise with a wonderfully diverse cast. This is definitely a romance but not a cute and fluffy one. It’s about two people from different worlds who meet on a train and feel drawn to each other. As the relationship progresses they see that there can be wonderful moments and challenging ones for people from both sides of the ‘tracks’. The heavier themes were dealt with in a way that didn’t detract from the fact that this is primarily a love story, but neither was it a flippant look at issues such as parental expectations, racism, and stereotyping. They were blended together and struck a harmonious balance. There were a few tense moments in the story that had me internally begging the author to make things go the way I saw them in my head. I was unaware how invested I was in the relationship between Isa and Alex until I welled up at a particular point. No actual crying, however welling up in a book is huge for me on the emotional scale. An enjoyable book.… (more)
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Another pleasant surprise with a wonderfully diverse cast. This is definitely a romance but not a cute and fluffy one. It’s about two people from different worlds who meet on a train and feel drawn to each other. As the relationship progresses they see that there can be wonderful moments and challenging ones for people from both sides of the ‘tracks’. The heavier themes were dealt with in a way that didn’t detract from the fact that this is primarily a love story, but neither was it a flippant look at issues such as parental expectations, racism, and stereotyping. They were blended together and struck a harmonious balance. There were a few tense moments in the story that had me internally begging the author to make things go the way I saw them in my head. I was unaware how invested I was in the relationship between Isa and Alex until I welled up at a particular point. No actual crying, however welling up in a book is huge for me on the emotional scale. An enjoyable book.… (more)
audio (9 hours) - light skinned dancer with Cuban roots meets dark-skinned (often racially profiled) baseball pitcher and poet with Dominican roots on the subway; love eventually prevails despite prejudices and complicated family situations.
CW for parent and sibling with bipolar disorder, suicide attempt, gang violence, police violence
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- Rating
- 3.7
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