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Xiomara Batista is a first-generation Dominican American teenage girl, living in Harlem, NY, and growing up in a very strict immigrant, religious household.
Xiomara struggles with finding her voice and identity, as her secular poetry verse and her free-thinking attitude does not coincide with her mother’s religious fundamentalism. Xiomara also faces the challenge of falling in love with Aman (a boy in her bio class), despite her not being allowed to date.
Finding herself torn between following h ...more
Xiomara struggles with finding her voice and identity, as her secular poetry verse and her free-thinking attitude does not coincide with her mother’s religious fundamentalism. Xiomara also faces the challenge of falling in love with Aman (a boy in her bio class), despite her not being allowed to date.
Finding herself torn between following h ...more
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