American Street by Ibi Zoboi [in Shelf Awareness]
23 Feb, by in Black/African American, Caribbean, Caribbean American, Fiction, Haitian, Haitian American, Repost, Young Adult Readers
Arriving with her mother from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, at Kennedy Airport, "holding hands for courage," 17-year-old Fabiola Toussaint, a U.S. citizen by birth, is ushered through Customs while immigration officials detain Manman. Fabiola is forced to leave her behind in New York, and lands alone in...