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What Makes Us

What Makes Us

by Rafi Mittlefehldt
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/01/2020

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A viral video reveals a teen’s dark family history, leaving him to reckon with his heritage, legacy, and identity in this fiery, conversation-starting novel.

Eran Sharon knows nothing of his father except that he left when Eran was a baby. Now a senior in high school and living with his protective but tight-lipped mother, Eran is a passionate young man deeply interested in social justice and equality. When he learns that the Houston police have launched a program to increase traffic stops, Eran organizes a peaceful protest.

But a heated moment at the protest goes viral, and a reporter connects the Sharon family to a tragedy fifteen years earlier — and asks if Eran is anything like his father, a supposed terrorist. Soon enough, Eran is wondering the same thing, especially when the people he’s gone to school and temple with for years start to look at him differently. Timely, powerful, and full of nuance, Rafi Mittlefehldt’s sophomore novel confronts the prejudices, fears, and strengths of family and community, striking right to the heart of what makes us who we are.

  • A beautiful, powerful story about terrorism, community, family, and social justice. 
  • Timely, fiery, and conversation-starting 
  • Major themes of coming to terms with who you are and where you came from, the politicisation of movements such as "Black Lives Matter," extremism, and terrorism.
ISBN:
9780763697501
9780763697501
Category:
Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-01-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
209x139x26.92mm
Weight:
0.52kg
Rafi Mittlefehldt

Rafi Mittlefehldt is a writer who has worked as a newspaper reporter, freelance theater critic, and children’s author. His debut novel was It Looks Like This.

Rafi Mittlefehldt lives with his husband in New York City.

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