A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, and even her own home.
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..
In the process, she might discover what it truly means to carve out a space for yourself to belong.
With her signature wit and snark, Ale faces what she\'s been hiding from.
But her usual keeping her head down tactic isn\'t going to make this go away.
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.
Maybe there, Ale will finally find a place to call her own.
She only has to survive her senior year before she can escape to the prestigious Whyder College, if she can get in.
Certainly not at her Manhattan prep school, where her predominantly white classmates pride themselves on being woke.
Not in Jackson Heights, where she isn\'t considered Latinx enough and is seen as too PC for her own good.
Not at home, where Ale faces tense silence from Ma since Papi\'s passing. --Gayle Forman, New York Times best-selling author of IF I STAY Alejandra Kim feels like she doesn\'t belong anywhere.
Simply brilliant! --David Yoon, New York Times best-selling author of FRANKLY IN LOVE Scathingly funny.
A hilarious, poignant, and powerful YA novel from the award-winning author of Re Jane.
A multicultural teen struggles to fit into her elite prep school, her diverse Queens neighborhood, and even her own home
