As You Are

Iyanna is a high school student. All she wants is to be accepted for who she is. Will the school system ultimately fail her due to her skin color?

As new author, I aim to create a better understanding of the world and our place in it - a mission which has caused me to evaluate my thinking.

This book was written over six years ago. It was during a period in time when I felt as though statistics and societal pressures had a way of holding you back because you were not accepted "As you are."

As an African American and a woman, I felt these pressures immensely throughout my later years in childhood and schooling. I grew up very multicultural, but it didn't stop the racial societal pressures.

This book is a fictional book and does not reflect my actual high school, and although a lot of the material is based on actual events that happened in my life, it's still takes place in a fictional setting.

The main character in the book wrestles with these societal pressures, statistical data, and lack of culturalism in the school system. She feels overwhelmed as if everything about the it is set up for her to fail. Throughout the book, she makes a lot of great points on how the school system can be improved upon to help people like her succeed.

My hope with this book is that after you finish the reading it you will walk away with a new perspective. The moral of the book is that death knows no color, race, age or gender. We will all return to the earth one day. It's best we aim to be just "As we Are" and break racial barriers, societal pressures, and categorical boxes we place people in with statistical data.

In a society riddled with racial barriers, pressures, and statistical generalizations is it possible for a person to be accepted as they are?Order your copy now and find a new perspective!