A young girl in Harlem discovers slam poetry as a way to understand her mother’s religion and her own relationship to the world. Debut novel of renowned slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo. Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is invited to join her school’s slam poetry club, she doesn’t know how she could ever attend without her mami finding out, much less speak her words out loud. But still, she can’t stop thinking about performing her poems. Because in the face of a world that may not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to be silent.
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Elizabeth Acevedo
ELIZABETH ACEVEDO é filha única de um casal de imigrantes dominicanos. Bacharel em artes cênicas pela George Washington University, obteve mestrado em escrita criativa pela Universidade de Maryland. Com mais de catorze anos de experiência em poesia performática, Acevedo é Campeã Nacional de Declamação de Poesia. Figurando na lista de mais vendidos do New York Times assim que foi lançado, A Poeta X é o livro de estreia de Acevedo. Ela mora com seu parceiro em Washington, DC.
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