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LaToya Williams lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and attends a mostly white high school. It seems as if her only friend is her older brother, Alex. Toya doesn’t know where she fits in, but after a run-in with another student, she wonders if life would be different if she were … different. And then a higher power answers her prayer: to be “anything but black.”
Toya is suddenly white, blond, and popular. Now what?
Randi Pink’s audacious fiction debut dares to explore a subject that will spark conversations about race, class, and gender.
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“Pink illustrates how kids of all races bully one another to establish a pecking order but also shows that the characters are free to find their own identities. The author does not shy away from rape culture…[but] balances the more serious moments of her novel with the antics of Toya and Alex’s parents, who just cannot seem to get along, and the occasional appearance of a personable Jesus who reminds Toya of a ‘cool English teacher.’”
— Children’s Literature
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“Pink is careful to never allow the story itself to fall into agenda-pushing. Instead, she allows Toya to explore the gray areas teens negotiate as their identities shift and as their belief systems are challenged.”
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“Dives into thorny issues of identity, self-image, and the internal effects of racism in a strikingly frank way.”
— Publishers Weekly -
“Teens will identify with the wishful thinking and longing of the protagonist feels…Family values, community standards, today’s education system, and the importance of compassion for others are all addressed here.”
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“Narrator Adenrele Ojo brings a strong delivery to this unusual story…a fairy tale with a gritty underside that examines racial and gender identity and self-image.”
— AudioFile
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About Randi Pink
Randi Pink grew up in the South and attended a mostly white high school. She lives with her husband and their two rescue dogs in Alabama, where she works for a branch of National Public Radio. Into White is her fiction debut.
About Adenrele Ojo
Adenrele Ojo is an actress, dancer, and audiobook narrator, winner of over a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2018. She made her on-screen debut in My Little Girl, starring Jennifer Lopez, and has since starred in several other films. She has also performed extensively with the Philadelphia Dance Company. As the daughter of John E. Allen, Jr., founder and artistic director of Freedom Theatre, the oldest African American theater in Pennsylvania, is no stranger to the stage. In 2010 she performed in the Fountain Theatre’s production of The Ballad of Emmett Till, which won the 2010 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Ensemble. Other plays include August Wilson’s Jitney and Freedom Theatre’s own Black Nativity, where she played Mary.