Wow!!!
Ok so where to begin....Fabiola, Fabulous to Kasim, Fab to her cousins, has come back to America. She was born and spent the first few months of her life in Detroit but then she and her mother returned to Haiti. Now they are back, or trying to come back. But when they land at JFK her mother is detained and she is allowed to continue on her own.
And alone she lands in Detroit and is swept into the world her cousins and Aunt occupy. Life in Detroit, in the little house at the crossroads of American Street and Joy Road, is so very different than her life in Haiti but not so different. There is a power struggle and not always enough to go around. She may be new to the language and culture but Fabiola is wise in her own way, and she is so very strong. Even when she gets it wrong. She believes in family, in love, and in Vodou, the culture which she holds onto and looks to for guidance and comfort as she adjusts to her new world. And she wants her mother back, and will do what ever she has to to get her, well almost what ever. But the cost is high and Fab doesn't expect where things go.
There is magic, love, fear, violence, and hope on America Street. And the writing is raw and beautiful. Zoboi has a new book out, Pride, a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, that I am not very anxious to get my hands on.
(Finished October 6, 2018)
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