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Gr 9 Up—After her mother is detained by immigration officials, Fabiola Toussaint has to finish her move from Port-au-Prince to Detroit alone. The tough-as-nails cousins and exhausted aunt who greet her in Michigan bear little resemblance to the warm family she had dreamed of when she was in Haiti. Left with a mother-size hole in her life, Fabiola begins the unsteady process of assimilation, holding on to her family's spiritual traditio...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Immediately after landing in New York from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola's mother is detained by U.S. Immigration. Fabiola must continue the journey alone to her aunt and cousins in Detroit, specifically to the intersection of American Street and Joy Road. Quickly discovering her location to be a cruel misnomer, Fabiola receives a crash course in cultural differences from her three cousins Chantal, Primadonna, and Princess, known as "The Three Bees." In the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More