You might think having this heritage-vs.-new-homeland dichotomy would be something to bond over but, people being people, this is almost never the case. Anyone with immigrant relatives will be familiar with observing cultural customs that never carried much past the walls of the family homes. Funny, as foreign roots are very common in the melting pot of America, where everyone – or at least their forebears - hailed from somewhere else. For Vera - as Brosgol explains in her Author’s Note, this is an autobiographical tale neatly fictionalized – that outsiderness stems from having moved to the United States from Russia at the age of five and not quite fitting in with all the other American kids. It may be listed as being for Middle Grade and Young Teens, but Be Prepared will hit home with any adult who ever felt out of place growing up, which is to say, most of us.
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