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"Eighteen-year-old Carmen takes on a summer internship that has her reuniting with estranged family for an over-the-top quinceañera, reluctantly reconnecting to a long-lost ex-boyfriend, and finding happiness in the chaos"--
Carmen Aguilar just wants to make her happily ever after come true. Which involves being stuck in an unpaid summer internship-- performing in a ball gown-- during the summer-- in Miami! Then the company is hired for her spoiled...
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2008
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The quinceañera, the fifteenth birthday celebration for a Latina girl, is quickly becoming an American event. This legendary party is a sight to behold: lavish ball gowns, extravagant catered meals, DJs, limousines, and multi-tiered cakes. The must-haves for a "quince" are becoming as numerous and costly as a prom or wedding. And yet, this elaborate ritual also hearkens back to traditions from native countries and communities, offering young Latinas...
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"Color Me In meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in Everything Within and In Between, a deeply honest coming-of-age story about reclaiming a heritage buried under assimilation, the bonds within families, and defining who you are for yourself."--Amazon.
Santa Barbara, California. Raised by her strict Mexican grandma, Ri Ferǹndez has never been allowed to learn Spanish. She has always been pushed away from the neighborhood they call home...