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Feb 27, 2019
Nick
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young-adult-fiction,
poetry
This was an excellent YA story, told in the form of a bunch of poetry. The book, written by a prize-winning performance poet, was certainly well-written, and except for the odd haikus, the poetry was excellent. The story, about a teen girl and the conflicts within her family and surrounding her life, was moving and convincing. This wasn't about a character dodging bullets all the time. It was about a girl whose family came from the Dominican Republic, whose brother is extremely smart, whose fath
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I can see why this was an award winner. Beautifully written with a dynamic protagonist in Xiomara, I could barely put it down. So wonderfully done it brought back a lot of what it feels like to be a teenager. While as an adult I was a little disinterested in the romance plotline, I could see that things like that were all-consuming at that age and it was done incredibly well. Loved this book, can't wait to see more of Acevedo's work!
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Acevedo beautifully captures the full range of emotions that come with adolescence through her words and narration, especially the tension between Xiomara’s need for self-expression and her strict Catholic upbringing.
Listening to Acevedo's narration while reading along with the book was particularly meaningful. At the end of the audiobook, Acevedo reveals how “At the New York City Wide Slam” is a contrapuntal, a poem “you can read left to right or from one stanza down, into the next stanza.” As ...more
Listening to Acevedo's narration while reading along with the book was particularly meaningful. At the end of the audiobook, Acevedo reveals how “At the New York City Wide Slam” is a contrapuntal, a poem “you can read left to right or from one stanza down, into the next stanza.” As ...more
May 21, 2019
Jennette Neville
marked it as to-read
