I do everything I can when I’m throwing books and on my website. I’d carry them with me, and leave them in mailboxes, hold giveaways, and pay for postage. I would carry them in my car (from Allegedly to Grown) and I would drive them to schools, libraries, wherever they wanted. If Katherine Tegan was willing to send me a case of books. I will do whatever I have to do, to change it. And I hope that everyone will check it out because one of the things I learned when I posted it, and still find to this day, is that a shocking, disturbing, and depressing amount of people still don’t know who Tiffany Jackson is, or what a gifted talent she is.Īnd if I have to scream my throat raw (which, when the New York Times List dropped today? And Grown was on it? I did.) I will. The rest of the original post will continue after my review of Grown. I said that when Let Me Hear A Rhyme came out and I stand by it on the day that Grown releases. This is essential because I don’t believe anyone in publishing (not young adult or adult) is doing what Tiffany Jackson is doing. Thank You To Katherine Tegan For Arcs of Let Me Hear A Rhyme (at the time) and Grown in exchange for an honest review But she does it in a way that wraps those vegetables up in a story that makes the reader feel like they are eating ice cream (that being a wickedly, twisted and entertaining story). Jackson’s books, she has the ability to take the vegetables (social issues- the most difficult of them, in multitudes) that we need and have to eat. Zenter said (and I’m paraphrasing only because at the time I wrote the original post, it had been over a year ago) when you read any of Tiffany D. However, I happened to see Jeff Zenter speak on a panel and he couldn’t have put it more perfectly.
Jackson’s work for reasons that I could not always find succinct words for. My point, and I do have one, is that I have always been a staunch and vocal advocate for Tiffany D. I also had the tremendous honor of meeting, and hearing, both Jason Reynolds, and Angie Thomas speak. While I was already well aware of their work. I attended, what would become, my last educational conference- ALAN-YA.Ĭoincidentally, it is also where I discovered: Adam Silvera, Neil Schusterman, and Holly Black. I initially became aware of Tiffany Jackson when her first book, Allegedly came out. At that time, I wrote not just a review of Tiffany Jackson’s second book, but a collective homage to the work of Tiffany Jackson, as an author, and I hope, as a person. It is a post I wrote when Let Me Hear A Rhyme came out, last May.
Tiffany Jackson Retrospect- Updated 9/23/20 – Grown By Tiffany Jackson Hits New York Times Best Seller List!ĭisclaimer: This review of Tiffany Jackson’s Grown serves as an update to one of four of my favorite posts on this site.
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