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This is like word dessert. I recommend listening as an audiobook. Incredible.
Appeal Factors: moving; novels in verse; culturally diverse
My Thoughts: Without a doubt Acevedo presents a powerful and unflinching coming-of-age narrative through Xiomara, a first-generation American who struggles to navigate the intersections between her desire for independence, increasing disillusionment with the Catholic church, and a difficult relationship with her mother. Through her poetry we hear Xiomara's innermost thoughts and yearnings and experience all the angst, fear, and frustrati ...more
My Thoughts: Without a doubt Acevedo presents a powerful and unflinching coming-of-age narrative through Xiomara, a first-generation American who struggles to navigate the intersections between her desire for independence, increasing disillusionment with the Catholic church, and a difficult relationship with her mother. Through her poetry we hear Xiomara's innermost thoughts and yearnings and experience all the angst, fear, and frustrati ...more
Beautiful. I love the way Xiomara writes and the feelings she feels I can feel while I’m reading
Beautiful, Moving, fast-paced.
Apr 26, 2019
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