A Scenic Hills Summer by Shannon Yarbrough

I now know what they really mean is every degree requires these “pre-requisites” because most students have no idea what they want to do when they get into college and will change their degree two or three or ten times anyway.

Though I had a choice, my high school counselor urged me to take these all four years because that was considered “college-prep,” which really means nothing in the grand scheme of things since you’ll take them again when you get to college anyway.īut college calls them “pre-requisites” for your degree. I’d spend the first two years taking classes I’d already taken in high school: Science, Math, English, and History. In fact, that was the first lesson I learned about college. Did I really have to do it again my first year in college? I had already studied Shakespeare all four years in high school. I scrunched up my nose when I spotted Shakespeare’s name in the drama section under Comedy and Tragedy. The book was divided into different sections for short stories, poems, drama, and more. I thumbed through the glossary finding that each chapter was devoted to certain elements of literature: irony, theme, character, plot. Swimming pools, back yard barbecues, children riding bikes along neighborhood streets, Scenic Hills is a place where people go to escape the fast and dangerous pace of city life.The cover of my college freshman English 101 textbook

When she teams up with a rookie hustler, the trail leads them to a quiet suburb outside of St. From seedy strip joints to private upscale men’s clubs, there’s no part of the city where Colette won’t go while tracking the killer.Ĭolette relies on the unheard, and often ignored, voices of the city to lead her one step closer to solving the case. Having escaped the clutches of a small town years ago to become her true self, Colette yearns to tell the stories of minorities and under-represented people just like her. She’s also an award-winning investigative journalist for the New York City Tribune. She’s intelligent, provocative, and a proud trans woman. Unable to resist putting herself in front of a story as it unfolds, Colette Birzhan races to the Midwest to report on the case. The police have been slow to respond, and a local reporter suspects a serial killer might be stalking the city’s streets. Louis LGBTQIA community grows restless while searching for a missing bartender. When the bodies of three male sex workers show up on the banks of the Mississippi River, the St. Connecting the RIGHT readers with the RIGHT books

A Scenic Hills Summer by Shannon Yarbrough