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A review by carlisajc
Sisters/Hermanas by Gary Paulsen
5.0
GARY PAULSEN REQUIRMENT
This book is about two girls, Rosa and Traci. Rosa is a 14-year-old illegal immigrant in Texas, working at night in the streets as a prostitute in order to send money home to her mother. Traci is a 14-year-old bleached-blonde beauty queen in the same Texas city as Rosa, whose mother primes her everyday to be perfect and look perfect...because that is how she will succeed in life. These girls' lives intersect for a brief moment to see how truly similar they are.
This book was shockingly beautiful. It's in a really interesting format, where one side is in English and then you flip the book over and it's the same story but in Spanish. I kind of loved this. The point of the book was to see how, despite how different these two girls are, they are also kind of the same. Like, you flip the book over and though it's different, it's the same book.
Each side is 65 pages. I read it in less than an hour, but despite the length it makes an impact on you. To realize that those people you may look down upon (consciously or not) are not all that different than you. Birth is circumstantial.
Favorite Quote: "Half a second, a heartbeat—literally a heartbeat. One thump. Traci's eyes locked onto the girl's eyes, held, fixed, caught , and she knew everything. Knew that the girl was a Mexican, was her age, was illegal, was selling her body and was totally, completely terrified.
We, Traci thought.
Just that at first, in the first instant.
We are. . .
We are the same."
This book is about two girls, Rosa and Traci. Rosa is a 14-year-old illegal immigrant in Texas, working at night in the streets as a prostitute in order to send money home to her mother. Traci is a 14-year-old bleached-blonde beauty queen in the same Texas city as Rosa, whose mother primes her everyday to be perfect and look perfect...because that is how she will succeed in life. These girls' lives intersect for a brief moment to see how truly similar they are.
This book was shockingly beautiful. It's in a really interesting format, where one side is in English and then you flip the book over and it's the same story but in Spanish. I kind of loved this. The point of the book was to see how, despite how different these two girls are, they are also kind of the same. Like, you flip the book over and though it's different, it's the same book.
Each side is 65 pages. I read it in less than an hour, but despite the length it makes an impact on you. To realize that those people you may look down upon (consciously or not) are not all that different than you. Birth is circumstantial.
Favorite Quote: "Half a second, a heartbeat—literally a heartbeat. One thump. Traci's eyes locked onto the girl's eyes, held, fixed, caught , and she knew everything. Knew that the girl was a Mexican, was her age, was illegal, was selling her body and was totally, completely terrified.
We, Traci thought.
Just that at first, in the first instant.
We are. . .
We are the same."