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書籍專區 青少年兒童 青少年小說 Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim

作者:Park, Patricia

出版社:Random House

出版日期:2024.02.21

ISBN:9780593563403

書號:20306762

裝訂:平裝

定價:$420

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𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙎𝙮𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙡𝙚𝙟𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙖 𝙆𝙞𝙢
【我真的有那麼好嗎?冒牌者症候群的真心告白】
 
Alejandra Kim是一名韓裔拉丁美籍的少女。在精英預校拿獎學金的她,自知自己與眾不同的外貌和身分,謹遵已逝父親的教誨,過著低調且小心翼翼的校園生活。Ale只想安穩度過高中,好好準備大學考試,相信只要上了大學,就能逃離控制狂媽媽和她始終無法融入的圈子。而且似乎只有離開紐約,Ale才能遠離失去父親的傷痛。Ale迫切地想要從這一切抽身,開始新的生活,以真實的自己活著。
然而,即使Ale成績優異且不與人爭,少數族裔的身分卻仍引來眾人議論,甚至有教師謠傳,Ale能夠入學和拿高額獎學金,是因為她的特殊身分。Ale因此對自己感到質疑,認為自己可能真如謠傳所言,並不是因為自己的優秀而有今日的收穫。但Ale作為激進派的好友Laurel可不這麼想。Laurel無法忍受教師存有這種偏見,尤其是對她最親近的朋友,於是決定發起請願活動,毫不知情的Ale一時之間就這麼被推上風口浪尖。
為求自保,一向躲在暗處的Ale這次不得不站在聚光燈下,直面那些帶著偏見與存疑的目光。雖非情願,Ale也藉此逐漸找到歸屬感對自己的真正意義。
書中不僅敘述一名青少女迷惘的內心獨白,也探討了文化挪用、階級特權及群體包容性等多種議題,細膩刻劃年輕人面對種族、群體與身分認同的困境。
 
Not at home, where Ale faces tense silence from Ma since Papi’s passing. Not in Jackson Heights, where she isn’t considered Latinx enough and is seen as too PC for her own good. Certainly not at her Manhattan prep school, where her predominantly white classmates pride themselves on being “woke”. She only has to survive her senior year before she can escape to the prestigious Whyder College, if she can get in. Maybe there, Ale will finally find a place to call her own.
The only problem with laying low— a microaggression thrusts Ale into the spotlight and into the middle of a discussion she didn’t ask for. But her usual keeping her head down tactic isn’t going to make this go away. With her signature wit and snark, Ale faces what she’s been hiding from. In the process, she might discover what it truly means to carve out a space for yourself to belong.
Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim is an incisive, laugh-out-loud, provocative read about feeling like a misfit caught between very different worlds, what it means to be belong, and what it takes to build a future for yourself.
作者介紹
Patricia Park is a tenured professor of creative writing at American University, a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Arts, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and the author of the acclaimed adult novel Re Jane. The Korean American reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was named an Editors' Choice by the New York Times Book Review; a Best Book of 2015 by the American Library Association; an O, The Oprah Magazine pick; and an NPR "Fresh Air" pick, among other honors. Her writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Guardian, Salon, and others.