· Ibi Zoboi holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Pride and My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, a New York Times bestseller. She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives in New Jersey with her Edition description: Reprint. American Street is a contemporary coming-of-age novel by Haitian American young adult author Ibi Zoboi. It was published in and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature the same year. On the corner of American Street and Joy Road, Fabiola Toussaint thought she would finally find une belle vie—the good life. But after leaving 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.
American Street is a contemporary coming-of-age novel by Haitian American young adult author Ibi Zoboi. It was published in and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature the same year. American Street Ibi Zoboi. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. ARTICLES. Ibi Zoboi: 'Pride' Grows in Brooklyn; Spring Flying. Her new last name comes from husband Joseph Zoboi, a visual artist and educator with whom she has three children, ages 9, 12 and Filled with precise, hard-edged descriptions, American Street weaves together elements of faith, family, loyalty, race, violence, trauma, American dreams and failures—all bound together in a riveting, tragic tale.
American Street is a novel by Haitian-American author Ibi Zoboi. It follows the life of a young girl named Fabiola Toussaint who has to deal with her family’s move from Brooklyn, New York to Detroit in order for her father to find work. The film American Street tells the story of a Haitian immigrant named Fabiola who moves back home to America. Ibi Zoboi holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times Notable Book. She is also the author of Pride and My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, a New York Times bestseller. She is the editor of the anthology Black Enough. Born in Haiti and raised in New York City, she now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three children. Get all the key plot points of Ibi Zoboi's American Street on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.
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