From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun
A young-adult novel told through Melanin Sun's notebooks as he faces change in his family. Putting feelings into words gradually changes the way he sees the world.
Work Information
Writing things down makes the shifting family dynamic legible.
This is a story of a teenage boy recording family changes and his own feelings in a notebook. It centers on adolescent confusion and the difficulty of conversation inside a changing family.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Point
- Published
- 1997-10-01
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 10.8 x 1.27 x 17.15 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780590458818
- ISBN-10
- 9780590458818
- Price
- 3987 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Gay & Lesbian/Parenting & Families
When her mother reveals that she is a lesbian, young Melanin Sun fears that he and his mother will lose the closeness that they have always shared and considers leaving his home. Coretta Scott King Honor Book. Reissue.
Reviews
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Bought this as a gift to my friend. But this has been a fave of mine.
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Great reading for my 10 year old. It applied the topic of gender and prejudices, which they talked about in school. My son enjoyed the book and so did I. It is also a rather fast read, which helps kids who are not very avid readers and might be intimidated by bigger books.
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Awesome book
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A good book that shows the prejudice LGBT individuals and their friends and family have to face. But love is expressed in many different ways, a lesson Mel learns in this novel.
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After reading many of Jacqueline Woodson's short stories from various black LGBT anthologies, I finally got a chance to read one of her heartfelt, moving novellas in 'From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun.' Melanin Sun is a 14-year-old, dark skinned, quiet guy whose only family is his mother E.C. and longs to ask out his crush Angie out. While dealing with some obstacles that he faces in his young life, he writes his thoughts and challenges down in his notebooks to express what he normally wouldn't say out aloud (not even to his close mother). In the meantime, his mother makes a revelation to him that throws him for a loop when his mother reveals she's in love with a white woman by the name of Kristin. This truly tests the bond between mother and son through the majority of the story as he tries to either accept his mother's new found sexual identity along with racial issues that he expresses through some insistence in the book. As a twenty-something, I actually liked this story. While it is a simple, easy read, I do feel a lot of people who truly take a chance reading can take something out of it no matter how young or old they maybe. Melanin Sun is written in a very touching and realistic that some kids his age could definitely relate to. I also like how Woodson writes a story centering around a parent's sexuality that could prove being an emotional shift between parent and child. I'd say if you're an open-minded parent(s) with kid(s) read this together as a family it's very short and a nice heartwarming read.