In her quest for belonging Anellia discovers the risks and curious rewardsof confronting the world being taken in and then cruelly rejected by asisterhood of he... » 

In her quest for belonging Anellia discovers the risks and curious rewardsof confronting the world being taken in and then cruelly rejected by asisterhood of her fellow students falling recklessly in love with an oldergraduate student who happens to be black making a journey westward whensummoned by a figure from her past who she believed to be dead. Through thistriptych of events the atoms of Anellias life comes together as she beginsher journey into adulthood. Joyce Carol Oates new novel confirms her as one ofAmericas most important writers. She has written some of the most enduringfiction of our times. Ill Take You There is a deeply moving wry intenseexamination of how a girl becomes a young woman. «