#fiercefeb I think 14 y.o. Rhonda is a #rebelgirl for not accepting the cards dealt to her which include a pharmacist father who convinces her mother to kill herself, but instead deals her own hand by faking her own death and running away to Mexico in search of her recently deported gardener, Jesus, her only friend. In Mexico she will cut her hair, pass as a guy, and find her own way in this world. This book was quite the coming of age tale.
pickRhonda is 14, has an absent pharmacist father who shows up to keep her mother zombified on meds until the day he convinces her to kill herself. Wanting to find her only friend, Rhonda runs away to Mexico to find her recently deported gardener, Jesus. Once in Mexico she cuts her hair and passes herself as a young man finding it easier to navigate Mexico and the world as a man. What happens is one of the rawest coming of age tales I've ever read.
I'm not religious at all but I do need to ask this book forgiveness for my reactionary #threwitaccrosstheroom post last night, and forgetting what it's like to be 13. To have so many emotions going on inside it can be confusing which are which. This book turned into a pick today and during work just kept my mind occupied while I anxiously waited for my breaks to continue reading.
am i still reading this book? I feel like I'm not progressive enough for this book. It could also be the extended moth metaphor in which unwelcome/welcomed? molestation may or may not have taken place?
Or the in depth look at a girl who is just experiencing puberty and maybe thats it. If there was a book about the anti-romanticizing of a girl becoming a woman and how betrayed and caged by her body she felt, this book would be it. I cant even ...
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