Ebook {Epub PDF} Like No Other by Una LaMarche

 · Like No Other by Una LaMarche. January 2, by Ed. Sixteen year old Devorah Blum is a such a good Hasidic girl, she’s nicknamed frum Blum. It is nearly Rosh Hashanah and she’s at the hospital awaiting the arrival of her 18 year old sister’s first child. She’s in the waiting room sitting next to her brother-in-law, Jacob.  · Thoughtful, diverse, smart, bittersweet, unsettling, uplifting, and undeniably special, Una LaMarche’s Like No Other encapsulates in a single volume the powerful potential that literature holds to test our preconceptions and redefine our relationship with the world around us/5. `Like No Other' is the new contemporary young adult novel from American author Una LaMarche. This book has been on my radar for a while now - after that gorgeous cover came out (illustration by Michael Kirkham) and the story promised some much-needed diversity in YA/5(69).

Humor writer, YA author, and journalist Una LaMarche. HI AGAIN, I'M UNA. Not Uma, no matter what my arch nemesis Thurman would have you believe. I'm a humor writer and YA author. I've published four young adult novels, Five Summers, Like No Other, Don't Fail Me Now, and You in Five Acts, as well as a comic essay collection, Unabrow, which is based on some of my more questionable life choices. Una LaMarche's LIKE NO OTHER, her second novel, is a multicultural Romeo and Juliet-like story that comes at a time when diversity in young adult books is desperately needed. The book's as much a compelling study of Brooklyn's ethnically and religiously diverse yet segregated Crown Heights neighborhood as it is a touching forbidden romance. Like No Other by Una LaMarche. Like No Other tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, a black boy from Brooklyn and a Hasidic Jewish girl who are thrown together due to unforeseen circumstances. Sixteen year old Devorah Frayda Blum is a Hasidic Jew who lives in New York. She has six siblings, three sisters; Rose who is eighteen and married.

Like No Other by Una LaMarche. January 2, by Ed. Sixteen year old Devorah Blum is a such a good Hasidic girl, she’s nicknamed frum Blum. It is nearly Rosh. Like No Other by Una LaMarche. RazorBill (Penguin) ISBN: Published July Trade paperback, pages. Ages 12+. I loved reading this book. I found it refreshing, different and realistic. Devorah is brought up in the strict Hasidic way of life. “Like No Other,” Una LaMarche’s second young adult novel, begins as a hurricane bears down on New York City. Devorah’s year-old big sister, Rose, is about to give birth to her first.