The Friends by Rosa Guy
Published in 1973 by Bantam Books
Warning: This novel does contain sensual material, alcohol use, shoplifting, and language.
Genre: Family, Friends and Society, Multicultural, Death
This novel is the story about Phyllisia Cathy, a young girl growing up in deteriorating Harlem in the 1960s. Phyllisia and her family have moved to New York from the West Indies. Phyllisia faces various obstacles as she attempts to overcome being beat up at school, her mothers death and her fathers abusive temper. Phyllisia develops an unlikely friendship with a poor girl Edith, and the two teach each other valuable lessons. Edith is raising her siblings with little help after the death of her mother. Alice Walker from the New York Times has explained the learning process which these girls go through as, "the grim struggle for self-knowledge."
Published in 1973 by Bantam Books
Warning: This novel does contain sensual material, alcohol use, shoplifting, and language.
Genre: Family, Friends and Society, Multicultural, Death
This novel is the story about Phyllisia Cathy, a young girl growing up in deteriorating Harlem in the 1960s. Phyllisia and her family have moved to New York from the West Indies. Phyllisia faces various obstacles as she attempts to overcome being beat up at school, her mothers death and her fathers abusive temper. Phyllisia develops an unlikely friendship with a poor girl Edith, and the two teach each other valuable lessons. Edith is raising her siblings with little help after the death of her mother. Alice Walker from the New York Times has explained the learning process which these girls go through as, "the grim struggle for self-knowledge."
This book is powerful and has a strong message for teens about where to find friends. I also enjoyed this book because of the multicultural element. The teens in this book experience different struggles I (growing up LDS and White in a very conservative are) have never encountered. I learned a lot about culture and how family is universally important to so many different people of various cultures.
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