When we make it

Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Velasquez, Elisabet (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021.
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Summary:Sarai uses verse to navigate the strain of family traumas and the systemic pressures of toxic masculinity and housing insecurity in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, questioning the society around her, her Boricua identity, and the life she lives.
Physical Description:375 pages ; 22 cm
Audience:Ages 14+.
Grades 10-12.
ISBN:9780593324486
059332448X
Author Notes:Elisabet Velasquez is a Boricua writer born in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Her work is featured in Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Centro Voces, Latina Magazine, Longreads, We Are Mito, Tidal, and Martin Espada's anthology What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump. When We Make It is her debut novel. Elisabet lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.