{"id":2172,"date":"2018-05-20T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-20T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2018-05-20T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-20T15:36:42","slug":"be-prepared-by-vera-brosgol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"Be Prepared, by Vera Brosgol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by First Second Books.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, I loved camp stories.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, I did not love camp.<\/p>\n<p>The difference comes through very clearly in Vera Brosgol&#8217;s <em>Be Prepared<\/em>: camp, like other hells, is other people.<\/p>\n<p><em>Be Prepared<\/em> is the story of a young Russian immigrant girl who feels out of place with her wealthier American friends and convinces her mother to send her to a Russian Orthodox scout camp for the summer, where she will&#8211;she feels&#8211;be among kids like herself and fit in and have the glorious joyful camp experience she has heard of from her friends. It is&#8230;about as much like that as you would expect. There are biting insects, stinky latrines, unfriendly older kids who are much more familiar with the camp experience, shifting expectations, well-meaning counselors&#8230;it&#8217;s camp. It&#8217;s camp, from the perspective of a two-cultures kid, and Brosgol makes it vivid and relatable.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider using our link to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1626724458\/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=novegazi-20&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1626724458&amp;linkId=05d24f34ae8975879f2149e75bb35baf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">buy <em>Be Prepared<\/em> from Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by First Second Books. When I was a kid, I loved camp stories. When I was a kid, I did not love camp. The difference comes through very clearly in Vera Brosgol&#8217;s Be Prepared: camp, like other hells, is other people. Be Prepared is the story of a young Russian immigrant girl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}