Set in a run-down apartment building where all the teens live, each of the thirteen characters in the novel has an obstacle that he or she is trying to overcome. These intimate stories reveal the troubled encounters and secret hopes of the teens who live in The Building as they struggle to turn obstacles into opportunities and make their way in the larger world. Take the Stairs is about the limitations that press in on a community of inner-city teens limits placed on them by others and those they impose on themselves. Asim, who faces hatred directed against his Muslim family, and Allie, who spends the night on suicide watch over her depressed mother. There is David, who tries to talk to his father's ghost, and Jennifer, who flirts with men she does not want. Against the backdrop of this inner-city building, thirteen teenagers labour to overcome the challenges in their lives. And behind each tightly locked apartment door lie the hidden stories and unspoken dreams of the people who live there.
The halls hang heavily with the smell of roach spray and a rivalry of last night's dinners. A shopping cart lies abandoned in the lobby. Two teenagers slouch outside the front door, the lock broken again. Karen Krossing’s first young-adult book is an excellent collection of 13 linked short stories, which are all connected to their narrators’ living in The Monteray (aka The Building), a rundown 15storey apartment block in an unnamed city that is obviously Toronto. A fifteen-storey brick building butted against a pocket of comfortable houses, some of which have pools and three-car garages. Woods, Take the StairsKaren Krossing, Woodworking ProjectsSunset Books, Film Budgeting (Filmmakers Library : No. Lesley Roessing is with Karen Krossing and.
Gritty, heartfelt and ultimately redemptive stories for young adults. You must take their language, their history, their very identity.
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