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Cargando... When We Make Itpor Elisabet Velasquez
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 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) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Una novela en verso inolvidable, torrencial, esperanzadora, que redefine la esperanza. Sarai es primera generación de una familia puertorriqueña que vive en New York. Estudia octavo grado y ya puede ver con claridad la verdad, el dolor y la belleza del mundo, tanto dentro como fuera de su apartamento en Bushwick. Junto con su hermana mayor, Estrella, navega la tensión de traumas familiares, las presiones de la masculinidad tóxica y la inseguridad de su casa en un Brooklyn que se gentrifica rápidamente. Sarai cuestiona a la sociedad que la rodea, su identidad boricua y la vida, misma que ha decidido llevar con determinación y corazón abierto, aprendiendo a celebrarse en formas que le habían sido negadas. Y si lo logramos es una carta de amor a todas las personas a las que el mundo ha dicho que no lograrían sus sueños. Un manifiesto para quienes sienten sus emociones antes de poder nombrarlas, para quienes aún no son dueños de un idioma, pero tienen su historia. La novela debut de Velasquez dejará una marca indeleble en quienes la lean. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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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.