Scan barcode
A review by rainbowbookworm
Sofía Acosta Makes a Scene by Emma Otheguy
4.0
3.5 stars and that last half is for seeing my culture represented in the book.
My mom is Cuban and Alicia Alonso, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and American Ballet theater loomed large in my childhood. However, they loomed larger in Sofía Acosta's life as her parents were Cuban ballet dancers who had danced under Alonso's tutelage. I picked up this book excited that a middle grade novel could hopefully reflect some of my childhood.
In that sense I was not disappointed, but ultimately Otheguy tried to tackle too many themes and there are only so many nearly perfect resolutions this old lady can take.
My mom is Cuban and Alicia Alonso, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, and American Ballet theater loomed large in my childhood. However, they loomed larger in Sofía Acosta's life as her parents were Cuban ballet dancers who had danced under Alonso's tutelage. I picked up this book excited that a middle grade novel could hopefully reflect some of my childhood.
In that sense I was not disappointed, but ultimately Otheguy tried to tackle too many themes and there are only so many nearly perfect resolutions this old lady can take.