![]() ![]() However, after two years of teaching, Michelle feels pressure from her parents and the draw of opportunities outside the Delta and leaves Arkansas to attend law school. ![]() Fifteen and in the eighth grade, Patrick begins to thrive under Michelle’s exacting attention. Though Michelle loses some students to truancy and even gun violence, she is inspired by some such as Patrick. In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary and personal awakening.Ĭonvinced she can make a difference in the lives of her teenaged students, Michelle Kuo puts her heart into her work, using quiet reading time and guided writing to foster a sense of self in students left behind by a broken school system. ![]() But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. ![]() Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer, bursting with optimism and drive. “In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”- The AtlanticĪ memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi DeltaįINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE ![]()
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