Nadiya thinks that Laila’s writing is such crap-based on trope and archetype and cliché rather than life experience and an understanding of humanity-that she torpedoes not only Laila’s dreams for the future, but her GPA, and with it, her hope to get pulled off the waitlist at Bowdoin. And Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nadiya Nazarenko thinks that Laila’s writing is, in a word, crap. When he ends up in the hospital just a few months before graduation, he’s replaced by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Nadiya Nazarenko. And her creative writing teacher thinks she has what it takes to do just that. Someday, high school senior Laila Piedra wants to tell stories that transport people to other worlds, that inspire them to think and discuss and speculate and dream-she wants to do for other people what her favorite writers and show creators have done for her. It felt furious and heated, humiliated and childish, as if physicality were a language she was supposed to have learned, and here she was in senior year, surrounded by a horde of native speakers, unable to translate the most basic concepts. Her inexperience didn’t feel charming or virtuous, like she was some good-girl persona from a movie.
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