Buckhanon, K. Upstate.NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0312332693; Paperback; 256 pages; $11.12 USD
Awards
2006 American Library Association ALEX Award
2006 Audio Publishers Association Award in Literary Fiction (Audiobook)
2006 nominee for the Hurston/Wright Foundation's Debut Fiction Award
2006 Buckhanon received the inaugural Terry McMillan Young Author Award
2005 Essence Magazine named Buckhanon one of America's "Three Writers To Watch."
Annotation
Natasha and Antonio fight to save their relationship when Antonio is sent to jail; their fight lasts for a period of ten years. Readers will be fighting for their relationship and to find out if it will truly last.Book Talk
Antonio is
seventeen year old teenager living in New York City and Natasha is his sixteen
year old girlfriend. Antonio, to his shock,
finds himself in jail accused of killing his father. Natasha and Antonio want
nothing but to be together, and both make a commitment to stay together even
though Antonio is locked up. Antonio fights every day just to make it while
Natasha is faced with life decisions of her own. The two write letters back and
forth to one another over the course of a decade [ open the book to any page]. Their
paths seem to go into two separate directions but their love and trust in one
another seems to be the only constant in each other’s lives. Antonio and
Natasha sacrifice so much to be together, but they keep writing one another.
Life and prison throw their lives in different directions with different choices,
but they keep writing one another. Natasha and Antonio’s desperate longing for
one another is almost unbearable, but they keep writing one another. [Slowly keep turning pages to show the format
as you pan it around the room emphasizing the years that go by] Why? They can’t seem to let go of the love
that started when they were sixteen and seventeen. Because first loves are hard to let go and even
at every obstacle life and prison throw at them they are there for each other
even if it is just through letters. After ten years, they still correspond with
one another…… are they able to stay together? Is their love that strong?
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