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Chargement... When We Make Itpar Elisabet Velasquez
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I listen to Velasquez read her book. Wow! This one packed a punch, the things that Sarai goes through and writes about in her 16 years. It's not for the faint of heart. But Velasquez drops the trauma interspersed in powerful poetry. There is struggle with identity, life options, and poverty. But there is also hope and joy. A novel in verse set in Bushwick in 1996. See also: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo Quotes I guess what I'm saying is that I think I'm talented enough to make it out of here while avoiding everything that tries to get in my way. (23) ...because isn't that the worst thing? To exist so plainly in sight and still be ignored. (45) ...I'm writing my own story so that I can remember it accurately in case someone else tries to tell it for me. (52) I come from a woman so passionate the world calls her angry. Maybe Mami's not angry. Maybe she just knows what she's worth. (99) Ms. Rivera once said that words are usually a red carpet for actions. (137) "If You Care to Look Closely" the war on drugs is also a war on people. But in Bushwick, no one cares to look closely. (166) Never mess with a woman dressed in the glamour of her children's hunger. (218) I think all women have that talent. To make pain look like art. (237) How easy it is to love something for how well it can distract you from your pain. (298) We're supposed to wanna get outta here. When we make it, that's what we're supposed to do - leave. That's the dream. Make it out of the hood. No one tells us where we're supposed to go though. (331) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:"The energy. The clarity. The beauty. Elisabet Velasquez brings it all. . . . Her voice is FIRE!"??NYT bestselling and award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it means to "make it,? for readers of Nicholasa Mohr and Elizabeth Acevedo. Sarai is a first-generation Puerto Rican question asker who can see with clarity the truth, pain, and beauty of the world both inside and outside her Bushwick apartment. Together with her older sister, Estrella, she navigates the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Sarai questions the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives with determination and an open heart, learning to celebrate herself in a way that she has long been denied. When We Make It is a love letter to anyone who was taught to believe that they would not make it. To those who feel their emotions before they can name them. To those who still may not have all the language but they have their story. Velasquez?? debut novel is sure to leave an indelible mark on all who Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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illness, the gentrification of her neighborhood, and more. Through the poems in this debut novel in verse, Sarai finds
her voice as she asks questions and learns to celebrate herself.