Wonderful Acevedo writes with the authentic voice of a teenager finding her way as a poet, as a young woman, as a person with her own thoughts and ideas separate from those of her family, particularly her domineering very religious mother. Believable characters, all very human. I particularly liked the priest, and X's Twin. Not a nice tidy ending, but life isn't like that.

  Re-read on audio, and I think it may be even better in this format. Wonderful to hear it in the author's own voice. Raw and emotional and absorbing. young adult, poetry