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American Street
by Ibi Zoboi
This is an absolutely breathtaking, heart-wrenching, all too real story of a Haitian immigrant who is separated from her mother and forced to navigate her extended family’s complicated relationship with the streets of Detroit.
After years of receiving money from her aunt in Detroit, and saving as well, Fabiola and her mother are finally going back to America for good. Since Fabiola was born there and is a citizen, she’s fine; her mother, however, is detained, leaving Fabiola to find her way to her extended family in Detroit. Once there, she realizes that her cousins - the “Three B’s” - are not at all what she expected. In fact, they are downright scary. But she’s strong. When a detective approaches Fabiola and asks her to give information about her cousin’s boyfriend’s drug dealing in exchange for information about her mother, Fabiola jumps at the chance. As her life becomes more entwined with the Three B’a though, she wonders if she has made a huge mistake. The kind that might get someone she loves killed.
The writing is absolutely LYRICAL. I listened to it, and the narrator did such a fabulous job that I walked into school absolutely distressed about what was going on in the story a couple of times. Bump this up on your #TBR, y’all. It’s the real deal. Recommended for high school and up.
After years of receiving money from her aunt in Detroit, and saving as well, Fabiola and her mother are finally going back to America for good. Since Fabiola was born there and is a citizen, she’s fine; her mother, however, is detained, leaving Fabiola to find her way to her extended family in Detroit. Once there, she realizes that her cousins - the “Three B’s” - are not at all what she expected. In fact, they are downright scary. But she’s strong. When a detective approaches Fabiola and asks her to give information about her cousin’s boyfriend’s drug dealing in exchange for information about her mother, Fabiola jumps at the chance. As her life becomes more entwined with the Three B’a though, she wonders if she has made a huge mistake. The kind that might get someone she loves killed.
The writing is absolutely LYRICAL. I listened to it, and the narrator did such a fabulous job that I walked into school absolutely distressed about what was going on in the story a couple of times. Bump this up on your #TBR, y’all. It’s the real deal. Recommended for high school and up.