What Can(t) Wait
By Ashley Hope Perez
(Carolrhoda Books, Hardcover, 9780761361558, 234pp.)
Publication Date: March 2011
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Social Issues - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Social Issues - Adolescence, Social Issues - Emigration & Immigration
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Description
Marissa has smarts and plenty of promise, but she's marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood--and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college. When her home life becomes unbearable, Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere--and suddenly neither her best friend or boyfriend can get through to her. What Can't Wait tells the story of one girl's survival in a world in which family trumps individual success and independence, and self-reliance the only key that can unlock the door to the future.
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