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review numero dos: Towelhead
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“It was just too tense, being with Daddy. He wanted everything done in a certain way that only he knew about. I was afraid to move half the time. One I spilled some juice on one of his foreign rugs, and he told me I would never find a husband.”The quote above provides insight to this books protagonists detached relationship with her father. As seen in the quote, the protagonist has a troubling relationship with her father, as well as with all of the men in her story, and with some of the women she comes to interact with. The narrator and protagonist, Jasira, goes into excruciating detail to describe the questions and questionable relationships shes having to struggle with in her young phase of adolescence. This sometimes unstomachable detail that she provides definitely drives some readers away, but also, provides solace and relatability to young teens who are trying to navigate their way through youth’s puzzling and raw reality, such as Jasira is.While at the same time Jasira’s intimate accounts with the men in her life will repulse you, her interactions with the trusted women in her life, such as her neighbor, Melina, will warm you. This book will certainly take the reader on a rollercoaster of mixed emotions that will be worth the ride, if they can of course stomach the raw and unfiltered storytelling that the author provides.I thank the author for giving her audience a book that does not shy away from providing the reader with a young girls disturbing narrative on youths experiences with sexual assault, abandonment, manipulation, guilt, and toxic relationships. This books possibly relatable contents will surely help struggling young girls out by making them feel understood and not alone. But, for readers interested in this book, keep in mind that this book is not for everyone.
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