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Echo in the City, An
K. X. Song
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown/Hachette
ISBN: 978-0-316-39682-0
Keywords: Coming of age, Police violence, Politics, Parent-child relationship, siblings, Civil rights demonstrations, China, journalism, social media
As she protests against a proposed Chinese extradition bill in Hong Kong in 2019, Phoenix questions both her romance with Kai and her parents' dream that she attend college in the United States.