The Chosen One
The Chosen One
Echo Brown · first published 2022 · ISBN 9780316310734
Brown documents her journey from foster care through a scholarship to Dartmouth, where she confronted racism, grief, impostor syndrome, and questions about self-worth. She writes openly about the mental health toll of being one of very few Black first-gen students at an elite institution.
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If you're navigating college as a student of color or grappling with mental health alongside academic pressure, Brown's rawness about these intersecting challenges is important. She doesn't separate her identity from her academic experience.