{"id":11320,"date":"2020-06-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11320"},"modified":"2020-06-08T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:01:09","slug":"signs-connections-love-all-the-things-we-never-knew-by-liara-tamani-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=11320","title":{"rendered":"Signs, connections, love – ALL THE THINGS WE NEVER KNEW, by Liara Tamani (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ready for his free throw,
he blew a kiss –
straight to her heart, falling, falling\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually Rex blows a kiss to his late mother before every free throw<\/a>, and Carli fell courtside before her game because of a gallbladder attack, but their hearts connect as social media helps the upper-class Black teens find each other across Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numbers record their basketball success, map out his geometry of perfect landscape design, show her patterns that reveal truths and paths in art<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But numbers don’t tell everything like Rex’s guilt<\/a> because his birth caused mom’s death, Carli’s pain as a family truth is revealed to be a lie, or the cataclysmic ups and downs of first love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Rex’s dad ever come to a game or keep ignoring his only child forever?
Will Daddy ever tell Carli and Cole why Mom is suddenly divorcing him?
How can Carli tell her championship teammates that she hates playing basketball?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy book birthday to this tale in two voices, showering sparks and raining tears as Rex and Carli try to find themselves and hopefully find each other, too. From the author of Calling My Name<\/em> (recommended here<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When have you met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: All the Things We Never Knew \/ Liara Tamani. Greenwillow Books, 2020. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ready for his free throw,he blew a kiss –straight to her heart, falling, falling\u2026 Actually Rex blows a kiss to his late mother before every free throw, and Carli fell courtside before her game because of a gallbladder attack, but their hearts connect as social media helps the upper-class Black teens find each other across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[90,130,22,4,75,11,20,5,37,16,87,18,40,44,39,27,49,184,330,15,9,21,35,3,173,8],"class_list":["post-11320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-abandonment","tag-basketball","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-brothers","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-death","tag-determination","tag-divorce","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-love","tag-medical","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-ownvoices","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-texas","tag-us-author"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/All-the-things-we-never-knew.jpg?fit=428%2C648&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11394,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11320\/revisions\/11394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}