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Why I like this book . . . .
I love everything by Edwidge Danticat! She writes in beautiful language and uses her own life experience of coming to the USA from Haiti as a child to help you understand Haitian life and what it is like to be an immigrant.

Summary:

It is election time in Haiti, and bombs are going off in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. During a visit from her home in rural Haiti, Celiane Espérance and her mother are nearly killed. Looking at her country with new eyes, Celiane gains a fresh resolve to be reunited with her father in Brooklyn, New York. The harsh winter and concrete landscape of her new home are a shock to Celiane, who witnesses her parents' struggle to earn a living, her brother's uneasy adjustment to American society, and her own encounters with learning difficulties and school violence.
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