![]() ![]() “It’s too simple to hate the people who have doorways where you have walls,” she reflects. ![]() As a first-person narrator, Jordan is often dryly sarcastic, but it is her lyrical prose that brings depth and empathy to a story that could otherwise be another needless riff on the cross-dressing trope. To audition, Jordan adopts the male persona of Julian, and when Julian is accepted to fill a tenor spot with the group, Jordan must slip into the role of her life. ![]() After continued rejection for roles in the theater department, Jordan decides to try her hand at something new and joins one of the school’s legendary a cappella groups: a traditionally all-male one. Though the school’s diversity policy is bringing in more students from minority backgrounds, most of her classmates are still wealthy and white. Jordan Sun is a Chinese-American high school junior from a working-poor family who feels a bit out of place at her prestigious, arts-focused boarding school in upstate New York. Redgate deftly harmonizes a lighthearted plot with an exploration of privilege, identity, and personal agency. ![]()
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