Gabi, fragmentos de una adolescente / Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

Isabel Quintero

Gabi, fragmentos de una adolescente / Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Country
United States
Published
1 September 2020
Pages
288
ISBN
9780593082263

Gabi, fragmentos de una adolescente / Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

Isabel Quintero

Gabi aun no entiende quien es. Escribir la ayudara a juntar sus pedazos.

Gabi Hernandez esta en su ultimo ano de la preparatoria. Para entretenerse, escribe todo lo que le pasa en su diario: las solicitudes a las universidades, el embarazo de Cindy, cuando Sebastian salio del closet, los chicos guapos de su clase, la adiccion de su padre a la metanfetamina, y toda la comida que se le antoja. Pero lo mejor de todo lo que escribe es la poesia que la ayuda a ser quien es.

24 de julio
Mi madre me llamo Gabriela en honor de mi abuela materna, quien, por cierto, no quiso conocerme cuando naci porque mi mama no estaba casada, es decir, vivia en pecado. Mi mama me conto muchas, muchas, muchas veces como mi abuela la golpeo cuando le confeso que estaba embarazada de mi. !Le dio una paliza! A los veinticinco anos. Esa historia es la base de mi educacion sexual. Cada vez que salgo con alguien, mi mama dice, Ojos abiertos, piernas cerradas . Hasta ahi llega la conversacion de las abejitas y las flores. Y por mi esta bien, aun si no estoy enteramente de acuerdo con toda esa basura de esperar hasta que te cases . O sea, esto es Estados Unidos y es el siglo XXI, no Mexico hace cien anos. Pero, claro, no se lo puedo decir a mi mama porque pensaria que soy mala. O peor: que intento ser blanca.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Named to Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2014 Named to School Library Journal Best Books of 2014 Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: college applications, Cindy’s pregnancy, Sebastian’s coming out, the cute boys, her father’s meth habit, and the food she craves. And best of all, the poetry that helps forge her identity. July 24 My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who, coincidentally, didn’t want to meet me when I was born because my mother was unmarried, and therefore living in sin. 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. BEAT HER! She was twenty-five. That story is the basis of my sexual education and has reiterated why it’s important to wait until you’re married to give it up. So now, every time I go out with a guy, my mom says, Ojos abiertos, piernas cerradas. Eyes open, legs closed. That’s as far as the birds and the bees talk has gone. And I don’t mind it. I don’t necessarily agree with that whole wait until you’re married crap, though. I mean, this is America and the 21st century; not Mexico one hundred years ago. But, of course, I can’t tell my mom that because she will think I’m bad. Or worse: trying to be White.

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