What Goes Up author-Dr. Seuss But then Rashad is absent

But then Rashad is absent

he has become an urban legend

Her dream is to get off the streets and make a home in the exclusive Mega Towers

and prejudice and racism run rampant

With a newfound Jewish identity she never knew she had

What Goes Up author-Dr. Seuss But then Rashad is absentWhen Jorie wakes up in the loft bed of a college boy she doesnt recognize, shes instantly filled with regret. What happened the night before? What led her to this place? Was it her fathers infidelity? Her mothers seemingly weak acceptance? Her recent breakup with Ian, the boy who loved her art and supported her through the hardest time of her life? As Jorie tries to reconstruct the events that led her to this point, free verse poems lead the reader