TY - BOOK AU - Dee Rees AU - Dee Rees AU - Adepero Oduye AU - Kim Wayans AU - Aasha Davis TI - Pariah AV - PN1997 .P375 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - United States PB - Chicken And Egg Pictures, MBK Entertainment, Northstar Pictures N1 - N2 - From case cover: Kim Wayans, Adepero Oduye, Aashe Davis and Charles Parnell star in Dee Rees's inspiring film that critics hail is "Vibrantly alive! Potently moving and heartfelt!" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone)l Seventeen-year-old Alike (pronounced ah-lee-kay) lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. She has a flair for poetry, and is quietly embracing her identity as a lesbian. But whenever Alike's development becomes a topic of discussion at home, her parents' already strained marriage is pushed to the breaking point. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and tenacity- sometimes succeeding, sometimes not, but always moving forward ER -