This excels in terms of voice. She sounds plausibly her age, but also intelligent. Something YA gets wrong more than it gets right.

This is also perfectly fine, otherwise - but it is also exactly as you imagine the story to go. A story of a young girl illegally and immorally married to a man so the family can hold onto property and not slip into homelessness. It doesn’t help that the dust jacket gives about 3/4 of the plot and the central conflict away. I am not being hyperbolic. The book matter is about that much of the plot (beats).

Once the discovery of New York and her sort-of settling in to her new life occurs, the voice takes a back seat and the plot becomes almost perfunctory.

I did like the ending, though.