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What can(t) wait

di Ashley Hope Perez

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"Another day finished, gracias a Dios."

Seventeen-year-old Marisa's mother has been saying this for as long as Marisa can remember. Her parents came to Houston from Mexico. They work hard, and they expect Marisa to help her familia. An ordinary life??marrying a neighborhood guy, working, having babies??ought to be good enough for her.

Marisa hears something else from her calc teacher. She should study harder, ace the AP test, and get into engineering school in Austin. Some days, it all seems possible. On others, she's not even sure what she wants.

When her life at home becomes unbearable, Marisa seeks comfort elsewhere??and suddenly neither her best friend nor boyfriend can get through to her. Caught between the expectations of two different worlds, Marisa isn't sure what she wants??other than a life where she doesn't end each day thanking God it's over.

But some things just can'… (altro)

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RGG: Conflict between familial and cultural expectations vs. personal ambitions to attend college and follow personal dreams feels very realistic. Issues of teen pregnancy, male sexual expectations, female sexual feelings, and managing friendships are well-done without being didactic. Reading Interest: YA.
  rgruberexcel | May 30, 2022 |
Really liked it! ( )
  saillergirl | Jan 18, 2016 |
Marisa is a Mexican-American high-school senior from a traditional Mexican immigrant family living in Houston. So she's expected to be a self-sacrificing, dutiful daughter who puts everyone else ahead of her. And she actually tries to do this. Her one "flaw" is that she is good at math, and she wants something different: an education, and an engineering career. What I loved about this book was it's authenticity. The author knows her characters, their lives and struggles: the angry, closed-off traditional father, the loyal, beaten-down mother, the brother who gets to take care of himself first, the sister who gets pregnant and marries the good-for-nothing who goes and gets himself disabled in a work accident. I so much want to share this book with a high school senior whose immigrant parents don't seem to care that their daughter might get a high school degree and go on to college--but I think she's too busy to read it. ( )
  fromthecomfychair | Mar 16, 2014 |
When I saw that this book was not only about the Mexican-American experience but that it also included a teenage girl who excelled in math, I couldn’t wait to read it. (the Mexican experience aspect because I find it fascinating and the math thing to stick it to my 5th grade science teacher who told my mom that it was no big deal that I sucked at circuitry because I was a girl and would obviously never need to know anything about it) The only other YA books that I’ve read involving Mexican teenagers are [a:Simone Elkeles|274533|Simone Elkeles|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1229551966p2/274533.jpg]’s Fuentes brothers books, and those are firmly anchored by their romantic plotlines. While I enjoyed those books, I’m happy to say that [b:What Can’t Wait|1064630|I Can't Wait to Meet My Daddy|Kathleen Blease|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180674955s/1064630.jpg|1051273] is not carried by Marisa’s romantic life. Instead, we follow Marisa Moreno through her senior year of high school. No one in her family has ever gone to college but Marisa and several people who surround her believe that she has what it takes to achieve something more. Her attempts are thwarted left and right but she doesn't give in. I have to say, I always find it refreshing when a teenage protagonist is a hard worker and grounded in reality. So many YA books are based around trivialities but this one deals with several more serious issues. Yes, I remember how ridiculous many of my teenage concerns were and recognize that these books of which I speak are probably very true to actual teenage concerns and life. I guess I just like things a little more gritty. The tone of this novel is realistic, a little on the dark side, but decidedly optimistic. And the pacing is quick yet steady; I never felt like the story was rushed or that there was lag.

This book gives off a [b:Dairy Queen|16178|Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1)|Catherine Gilbert Murdock|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166719842s/16178.jpg|564970] series vibe, and we all know what a good thing that is. The family situation is quite similar as well—a teenage girl who has to work hard for her family to the detriment of her schoolwork, her friendships, her love life, and her future, a dad who just doesn’t get it, a mother who seems like a pushover in many cases, and siblings who often compound family stress. There isn't much in the way of descriptive writing going on but I truly didn't mind--[a:Ashley Hope Pérez|4394044|Ashley Hope Pérez|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1290226529p2/4394044.jpg] wrote a book that feels like we are reading Marisa's journal of her entire year. (perhaps that is another reason I kept thinking of DJ Schwenk?)

I checked out the publisher of this novel because I had never encountered them before and I thought perhaps Carolrhoda was a word in a different language—as it turns out, the origin of the imprint name is quite a touching story. The head of Lerner Publishing Group, Carolrhoda Press’ parent company, named the imprint after his wife’s lifelong best friend who died too young of breast cancer. She was in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia and worked to bring more books to children worldwide. Carolrhoda Lab, an offshoot of Carolrhoda Press, is a smaller imprint dedicated to publishing , “distinctive, provocative, boundary-pushing fiction for teens and their sympathizers.” (I chuckled at the teen sympathizers line—I suppose I don’t mind being labeled as such) After reading this work, I am certainly going to see what else this imprint has to offer.

3.5-3.75 stars rounded up.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for allowing me to read this one! ( )
  FlanneryAC | Mar 31, 2013 |
To read my review:http://bookvacations.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/what-cant-wait-by-ashley-hope-perez/ ( )
  ABookVacation | Nov 12, 2011 |
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"Another day finished, gracias a Dios."

Seventeen-year-old Marisa's mother has been saying this for as long as Marisa can remember. Her parents came to Houston from Mexico. They work hard, and they expect Marisa to help her familia. An ordinary life??marrying a neighborhood guy, working, having babies??ought to be good enough for her.

Marisa hears something else from her calc teacher. She should study harder, ace the AP test, and get into engineering school in Austin. Some days, it all seems possible. On others, she's not even sure what she wants.

When her life at home becomes unbearable, Marisa seeks comfort elsewhere??and suddenly neither her best friend nor boyfriend can get through to her. Caught between the expectations of two different worlds, Marisa isn't sure what she wants??other than a life where she doesn't end each day thanking God it's over.

But some things just can'

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