Boomi's Boombox (Shanthi Sekaran)
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• My Dope Intro Like a satisfying mixtape, Shanthi Sekaran 's new novel Boomi's Boombox ( Katherine Tegan Books , 2023) is emotionally and thematically eclectic. Twelve-year-old Boomi has been expelled from a ballet academy, kicked to the curb by her bestie, and fat-shamed by her own mother. Worst, her father died of Covid. Boomi is American, but her parents are (or were) British immigrants of Indian descent. A culture clash and a battle of interests are happening within Boomi, and then... then she time travels to 1986! • The Power of Love In 1986, Boomi reconnects with her father, then also twelve years old. The heart of the novel is Boomi's anguish over having lost him, which spurs her to better understand who he was as a person, more than just a father figure. To her surprise, she learns more about everyone in her family — her aunt, her grandmother... herself. She discovers racial antagonism her father endured silently. She discovers that others in her family...