What can't wait

By Ashley Hope Pérez

Subjects: Self-reliance, Family problems, Family life, fiction, Mexican Americans, Fiction, general, Mexico, fiction, Fiction, Mexican americans, fiction, Children's fiction, Juvenile fiction, Houston (tex.), fiction, Family life, Self-reliance, fiction

Description: Marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood--and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college--smart, talented Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere when her home life becomes unbearable.