Seen And Heard: Teenagers Talk About Their Lives (Building a Family Book 5) [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

What does it mean to grow up in America? In Seen and Heard: Teenagers Talk About Their Lives, documentary photographer Mary Motley Kalergis invites readers into the intimate worlds of young people between the ages of thirteen and nineteen. Through striking black-and-white portraits and candid interviews, these teenagers speak their own truths about family, friendship, identity, school, work, and the uncertain promise of the future.With empathy and artistry, Kalergis captures what it feels like to stand on the threshold between childhood and adulthood — the confusion, the beauty, and the fierce search for truth. Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Sam Shepard, in his foreword, reflects on the universal struggle to define oneself, praising the “honesty and courage” of this generation’s voices.Seen and Heard dispels stereotypes and invites readers to listen. The teenagers’ insights are at once deeply personal and strikingly universal — a mirror for anyone who has ever asked, Who am I? or Where do I belong? Read more