I'd Rather Burn Than Bloom av Shannon C. F. Rogers

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<p><b>Packed with voice, Shannon C.F. Rogers'' <i>I''d Rather Burn than Bloom </i>is a powerful YA novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother''s death.</b><br><br>Some girls call their mother their best friend. Marisol Martin? She could never relate. She and her mom were forever locked in an argument with no beginning and no end. Clothes, church, boys, no matter the topic, Marisol always felt like there was an unbridgeable gap between them that they were perpetually shouting across, one that she longed to close. <br><br>But when her mother dies suddenly, Marisol is left with no one to fight against, haunted by all the things that she both said and didn¿t say. Her dad seems completely lost, and worse, baffled by Marisol''s attempts to connect with her mother''s memory through her Filipino culture. Her brother Bernie is retreating further and further into himself. And when Marisol sleeps with her best friend''s boyfriend - and