First edition.

312 pages ; 22 cm

Ages 13 and up. Feiwel & Friends.

Grades 10-12. Feiwel & Friends.

Alternating between present day and flashbacks, multiracial Filipina-American teen Marisol tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother's sudden death.

Marisol and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. When her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn't say. When Marisol sleeps with her best friend's boyfriend--- and then punches said best friend in the face--- she is left alone with nothing but a burning anger. As a new friendship begins to develop, Marisol reluctantly starts to open up to the possibility there's something else on the other side of that anger--- something more to who she is, and who she could be.

Grief -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.

Families -- Juvenile fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Schools -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers -- Death -- Juvenile fiction.

Racially mixed people -- Juvenile fiction.

Filipino Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.

Family life -- Fiction.

JUVENILE FICTION / General.

Families.

Filipino Americans.

Grief.

Interpersonal relations.

Mothers and daughters.

Racially mixed people.

Schools.

Young adult fiction.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Novels.

Young adult works.

Bildungsromans.

Novels.

Fiction.

I would rather burn than bloom

Online version: Rogers, Shannon C. F. I'd rather burn than bloom. First edition New York : Feiwel & Friends, 2023 9781250845672 (DLC) 2022046369

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