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BLACK WORDS, BLACK MUSIC, BLACK HAIR - Efren wants it all. He's 13, bi-racial, and confused. With his Black card buried with his deceased Pops, and his Filipina mom trying to snuff the Blackness out of him, Efren is stuck between two worlds.Mixed Kid Woes Say What's Up is a young adult, coming-of-age novel. Efren attempts to embody his Black father, affectionately called Pops-whose infidelity, abandonment, and death fractures their family. As Efren navigates his grief, his engagement with Black lingo and music and hair triggers the bafflement of his mother, Emelda Jackson, who wants nothing more than to lead Efren away from Blackness, and by extension Pops' destructive path. "Mixed Kid Woes Say What's Up" is comic, ironic, and real, a bi-racial boy's rite-of-passage.-------------------------------------------------Content warning for occasional cursing. Enjoy!Cover credit: Me (via Canva ✌🏾)Copyright ©, Olvaaarrdd, 2022No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.…
