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Leavitt, Martine

My Book of Life by Angel

247 pp. | Farrar/Ferguson | September, 2012 | Trade ISBN 978-0-375-35123-6 $17.99
(1) YA In dramatic free verse, sixteen-year-old Angel tells of her almost accidental yet inevitable slip into drugs, prostitution, and abuse from older men. With startlingly few words and deliberate use of white space, Leavitt re-creates the experience of exploited teens in powerful detail. Each poem is a brief exposure of painful memory, stark observation, or comforting fantasy. A stunning, haunting portrait of exploitation and redemption.
Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2012

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