Growing Up 21st

Growing Up 21st is a series of poems written through the toughest parts of a chronically-online, Asian-American teenager growing up in a society telling you what you need instead of giving any of that to you.

The book focuses on the different values found in the core of familial relationships, inner-self relationships, and peer-to-peer relationships. The poems individually focus on the repressed traumas of middle school, high school, and of expectations set by everyone and everything around them with use of spinning common phrases into a twist or standard literature practices. Some are more complex than others as well as the differences in style, length, and meaning, but all are sure to note a side of life that isn't always sunshine and rainbows.