Title: What Can(t) WaitAuthor: Ashley Hope Perez
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published Date: March 1st 2011
Genre: Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, YA
Page Count:234
Format: Hardcover
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Goodreads Summary:
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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My Review:
"When we were younger, I imagine that finishing high school would be like waving a magic wand, and then my dad would like me and Ma would understand me and Ceci wouldn't dump on me and Gustavo would do the dishes for once and I'd have my own life.... Here I am, seventeen years old and still tiptoeing around my dad, trying to please my mom, getting bulldozed by Cecilia and ignored by Gustavo."
