【Echo Brown具自傳性質，滿載情感與力量的動人成長故事】
達特茅斯學院不是什麼夢幻烏托邦。
以畢業生代表的風光頭銜，從克里夫蘭的高中畢業，準備在這所常春藤名校展開大學新生活的Echo，發現這裡也許並非她的應許之地。
初來乍到，亟欲在這個陌生環境中站穩腳跟，但她此刻連立足之地都找不到。艱深的課程、富裕白人學生雲集的環境，都一再讓她感到格格不入，直到昔日對未來的展望與野心離她越來越遠。
悲傷、歧視、夢想、自我價值、野心、歸屬…拖著每況愈下的疲憊身心，Echo必須直面自己的內心與過往，一點一點，將纏繞心頭，幾乎隨時就能讓她窒息的糾結梳理開來…
This memoir filled with “overwhelming emotions and power” (The Mary Sue) testifies to the disappointments and triumphs of a Black first-generation college student in a predominantly white institution.
There are many watchers and they are always white.
That’s the first thing Echo notices as she settles into Dartmouth College. Despite graduating high school in Cleveland as valedictorian, Echo immediately struggles to keep up in demanding classes. Dartmouth made many promises it couldn't keep. The campus is not a rainbow-colored utopia where education lifts every voice. Nor is it a paradise of ideas, an incubator of inclusivity, or even an exciting dating scene. But it might be a portal to different dimensions of time and space—only accessible if Echo accepts her calling as a Chosen One and takes charge of her future by healing her past. This remarkable challenge demands vulnerability, humility, and the conviction to ask for help without sacrificing self-worth. In mesmerizing personal narrative and magical realism, Echo Brown confronts mental illness, grief, racism, love, friendship, ambition, self-worth, and belonging as they steer the fates of first-generation college students at Dartmouth.
The Chosen One
is an unforgettable coming-of-age story that bravely unpacks the double-edged college transition—as both catalyst for old wounds and a fresh start.
Finalist for the Ohioana Book Award
A Mary Sue Best YA Novel of the Year
2022 Catalyst Award Nominee for Best Memoir
A Junior Library Guild Selection
★ “Powerful and vulnerable"—
Booklist
, starred review
★"The story asks readers to examine the various intersections of their own identities as they reflect upon the circumstances that shape Echo’s reality . . .Echo and her crew will defy the many odds stacked against them."
―
BCCB
, starred review
