steelingstephanie 's review for:

American Street by Ibi Zoboi

4.0

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I loved this story and all that it encompassed. An all-too-real tale of immigration, trying to make it in America, drugs, cops/power and how easy it is to get sucked into a lucrative but twisted world, even when you mean the best. I think a lot of the time, people read stories like this (also thinking of The Hate U Give and Sweetgirl) and easily dismiss them as fiction and nothing else - but at the core, the stories of Fabiola and her mother and her cousins and Dray and Kasim are so real and alive. Not just in Detroit, but all throughout America. I could provide names of "real life" people who are eerily similar from my own experiences. It's fascinating and gripping, and one that's going to stay with me for a bit.