Wesley Jacques of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books described Take the Mic in a review: '.too many of the stories are didactic and wrenchingly contrived, losing the plot and characters to hammer the message. It is an edited anthology that 'aims to provide marginalized teens visibility and validation in stories of “everyday resistance.”' Her first book for young adults, Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance, was published in 2019 by Scholastic. Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance The book received positive critical reception and was described by Publishers Weekly as 'ambitious and insightful, raising questions about memory, trauma, and humanity.' Kirkus Reviews wrote, 'With her dizzying concept, richly imagined narrator, ornate setting, and first-rate storytelling, Morrow offers an epiphany for readers of speculative fiction with echoes of ideas explored in films like Blade Runner and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.' The book was recommended by the Chicago Review of Books, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and BuzzFeed News. Set in Montreal in 1925, the science-fiction novel tells the story of an alternate reality where people's memories are extracted and replayed constantly by half-living creatures called Mems. Morrow's first novel, Mem, was released in 2018. Morrow lived in Great Britain and Montreal before returning to the United States. She studied sociology in university and attended Bangor University for graduate school, studying clinical psychology, before leaving to pursue a career in publishing.

She enjoyed writing and reading from childhood and names authors Christopher Pike and Lois Duncan, and the book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry as early favorites. Morrow was born and raised in California. She writes speculative fiction for adult and young adult audiences and is the author of Mem (2018), A Song Below Water (2020), So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix (2021), and the editor of YA anthology Take the Mic (2019). Science fiction, fantasy, speculative fictionīethany C.

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