What I really want to do before summer vacation is over is try the new super-hot wings from Pepe’s House of Wings, located-conveniently-down the street. Not like he’s asked me for my number but, hey, at least I can say he’s given me something sweet. Eat a few more Rocky Road ice cream cones from Rite-Aid so I have an excuse to talk to the really cute guy there who has a full sleeve but has to cover it up because apparently Rite-Aid keeps it classy. It’s not like I don’t want to go back to school (because I do), but I also want to lie around and do nothing for a little bit longer. Less than a month before school starts again. But, of course, I can’t tell my mom that because she’ll think I’m bad. I mean, this is America and the twenty-first century, not Mexico one hundred years ago. I don’t necessarily agree with that whole wait-until-you’re-married crap though. That’s as far as the birds and the bees talk has gone. That story forms the basis of my sexual education.Įvery time I go out with a guy, my mom says, “Ojos abiertos, piernas cerradas.” Eyes open, legs closed. My mom has told me the story many, many, MANY times of how, when she confessed to my grandmother that she was pregnant with me, her mother beat her. My mother named me Gabriela after my grandmother who-coincidentally-didn’t want to meet me when I was born because my mother was not married and was therefore living in sin. In-between girls trying to make their space in Para la persona who first read to me and taught Title.Įlectronic edition handcrafted at Pajarito Studios
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy’s pregnancy, friend Sebastian’s coming out, her father’s meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially the poetry that helps forge her identity. Gabi, a girl in pieces / by Isabel Quintero. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data For further information, write Cinco Puntos Press, 701 Texas, El Paso, TX 79901 or call 1-91. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written consent from the publisher, except for brief quotations for reviews. Any likeness to people living or dead is purely coincidental. Gabi, a Girl in Pieces is a work of fiction.
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