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The rock in the water does not know the pain of the rock in the sun.
On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—a good life.
But after they leave Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Fabiola’s mother is detained by U.S. immigration, leaving Fabiola to navigate her loud American cousins, Chantal, Donna, and Princess; the grittiness of Detroit’s west side; a new school; and a surprising romance, all on her own.
Just as she finds her footing in this strange new world, a dangerous proposition presents itself, and Fabiola soon realizes that freedom comes at a cost. Trapped at the crossroads of an impossible choice, will she pay the price for the American dream?
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Ibi Zoboi was born in Haiti & immigrated to New York with her mother when she was four-years-old.
Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times bestselling author of books for children and teens, including American Street, a National Book Award Finalist, Pride, a modern remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and the Walter Award and LA Times Book Prize-winning Punching the Air, co-written with Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam. Ibi is a two-time Coretta Scott King Award honoree for The People Remember, her debut picture book, and Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler. She is the winner of the 2024 CSK Award for Nigeria Jones and the editor of the anthology Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America. Okoye to the People is her Black Panther novel for Marvel.
Ibi has appeared on CBS This Morning, MSNBC’s The Reid Out alongside Yusef Salaam, PBS’s Book View Now, and MSNBC’s Velshi Banned Book Club. Her writing has been published in Time Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the Horn Book Magazine, and The Rumpus, among others. As an educator, she received several grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council for her community-based programs for teen girls in both Brooklyn and Haiti, partnering with Haiti Cultural Exchange. She’s worked for arts organizations such as Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Community Word Project as a writer-in-residence and teaching artist in New York City public schools.
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in New York City, Ibi lives in New Jersey with her family. (Biography provided by the author)
