Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural (anthology, ed. Claudine C. O’Hearn)
Eighteen writers, one question: what is it like to grow up belonging to two worlds at once and fitting neatly into neither? This classic anthology, edited by Claudine C. O’Hearn, is a generation older than most of our readers, and that is part of its value. The essays prove the mixed experience has a literature, a history, and a shelf of thoughtful adults who walked this road first. For teens it is like a “start-here” book; for parents it could be a window.