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Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
- Remixed Classics, Book 5
- De: Anna-Marie McLemore
- Narrado por: Avi Roque, Kyla Garcia
- Duración: 8 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Wisconsin, has no interest in the city’s glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future—and his life as a man—and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old cousin, Daisy Fabrega, who lives in fashionable East Egg near her wealthy fiancé, Tom—and Nick is shocked to find that his cousin now goes by Daisy Fay, has erased all signs of her Latina heritage, and now passes seamlessly as white.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sparkling!
- De Brian Bottinga en 09-07-22
- Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
- Remixed Classics, Book 5
- De: Anna-Marie McLemore
- Narrado por: Avi Roque, Kyla Garcia
Historical Realism meets Contemporary Consciousness
Revisado: 10-14-22
Just finished reading The Great Gatsby with my juniors again, and wish we had spent time reading this, or Passing (just watched the movie). More and more, Gatsby the book has become not just challenging to teach because of the language, but because diverse high school students do not want the window into the white, straight elite world. I hated Gatsby when I read it in high school and again in college, and I think on some level it was because I didn’t see any part of myself reflected there. As a teacher, I can appreciate Fitzgerald’s “beautiful, simple, intricately patterned” language and plot, but McLemore rivals those things skillfully here. Pitched this book to students before I started listening to it, continued to update students on small changes once I did, and as I finish, two trans students are reading by choice. Taking tremendous pride in the fact that students are learning classics AND remixes from me. That they won’t have to go through as much of their life as I did wondering what was wrong with me that I didn’t like/get Gatsby.
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