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American Street by Ibi Zoboi6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Then, while Fabiola braids Pri’s hair, Pri tells her about her father, Phillip’s, murder, and how Matant Jo provided for her daughters after this. As she does, she notices her cousins react strangely to a story on the local news about a white girl who died after taking designer drugs. The next day, Fabiola gets ready for school. Fabiola watches as a young man-Donna’s abusive boyfriend, Dray-tries to beat him up. She hears a homeless man named Bad Leg singing outside. In the middle of the night, she gets up to pray to her Vodou shrine. ![]() ![]() No one feeds or properly welcomes Fabiola to Detroit, and Fabiola feels lonely. Matant Jo recently had a stroke and was hoping that her sister could help take care of her and her daughters. When Fabiola and her cousins arrive at Matant Jo’s house, Jo is disappointed that Manman isn’t coming. She assures Fabiola that her mother, Fabiola’s aunt Matant Jo, will take care of it. ![]() Chantal, the oldest, tries to track down Manman but learns that she’s going to be taken to a detention facility in New Jersey. Upon landing in Detroit, Fabiola meets her cousins Chantal, Primadonna, and Princess. Fabiola, however, is allowed to go on to Detroit to go live with her aunt and cousins. When 16-year-old Fabiola and her mother, Manman, try to emigrate from Haiti to New York, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains Manman in New York. ![]()
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