My Name Is Marisol

Author:   Michelle St Claire
Publisher:   May 3rd Books, Inc.
Volume:   6
ISBN:  

9781945891151


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   19 November 2016
Recommended Age:   From 13 to 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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My name is Marisol Vega. I am Latina. Beautiful. Mesmerizing. A young mermaid filled with intrigue and power. A thinker of profound truths. A speaker of words like stone and fire. Yet no one hears me. My brothers scoff at me. They put their hands over their ears when I open my mouth. They forsake my opinions. Dismiss my recommendations as 'baby sister babbling.' My mother filters my speech, threading out my passionate discourse by labeling it as nonsense that will never attract a good Latino one day. My father cannot hear me. He is far away. Forever locked in the moist tropical earth of Colombia beneath an old Catholic church. No one sees me either. My high school teacher failed to notice my absence one day. Then my absence the next day. Then the next. She did not see my empty school chair. She did not want to know where I was. That I was here, in the factory, next to mama and Juanita and Rosa and all the others, sweating through a ten-hour day to earn two dollars per hour pressing buttons on a big machine that swirl hot colorful liquids together that smell so syrupy sweet and then cool to make such a disgusting candy that no one but Americans can tolerate to eat. ...My words burn within me like boiling cauldrons. At night, when I rest on my small bed next to the window, I sleep without sleeping. I see words in my mind, dancing, flashing, twirling, dipping, and diving like sultry salsa dancers. I feverishly put them together to make wonderful stories that dazzle. Sometimes, I write them down and give my scribblings to Senor Pedro. The old shopkeeper is good to me. He tucks them away in his makeshift vault so as to save them for the day when fortune greets me and I am whisked me away to the university in Chile to gain culture and become famous and rich. I laugh at Senor Pedro's dreams for me. But inwardly, I relish the thought of using my prose to bravely reveal secrets. Dangerous secrets of the Colombian government, of fanatic warlords and of my father's untimely demise.

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Author:   Michelle St Claire
Publisher:   May 3rd Books, Inc.
Imprint:   May 3rd Books, Inc.
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781945891151


ISBN 10:   1945891157
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   19 November 2016
Recommended Age:   From 13 to 18 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Michelle St. Claire is the author of over 11 novels and other creative works, including Beautifully Unbroken(TM) Young Adult Series. She is an English Literature graduate of Emory University and a licensed attorney. St. Claire has developed dual careers in both writing and child welfare law. She is an up and coming author with growing reviews and notoriety.

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