I Can Write the World Coming of Age Fiction Reviewers called Katherine Arden’s novels

Reviewers called Katherine Arden’s novels The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower “sensual

hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race

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scarred and ignored but brimming with life

I Can Write the World Coming of Age Fiction Reviewers called Katherine Arden’s novelsEight year old Ava Murray wants to know why theres a difference between the warm, friendly Bronx neighborhood filled with music and art in which she lives and the Bronx she sees in news stories on TV and on the Internet. When her mother explains that the power of stories lies in the hands of those who write them, Ava decides to become a journalist. I Can Write the World follows Ava as she explores her vibrant South Bronx neighborhood buildings whose