This attachment to her Haitian culture keeps her mind always on her mom, preventing her from truly enjoying her new life. Even with her new identity, she still clings to the traditional Haitian practices of Vodou. From struggling to get out of her cousins’ shadows, to a mentally ill aunt who seems to have given up, to a blossoming romance, Fabiola seems in over her head trying to grasp who she is and where she fits into this strange new world. Fabiola is tossed into a modern American life that she battles to fit into. She is then forced to fly to Detroit to meet her aunt and cousins alone, with the hope that her mom will join her soon. After leaving her home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola quickly faces the reality of American immigration policies when her mom is detained in New Jersey. In Ibi Zoboi’s debut novel, American Street, she brings to light issues about racial discrimination, immigration, family separation, and identity through the eyes of a teenager, Fabiola Toussaint. A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers.Internal Migration and Internally Displaced Peoples.
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