![]() At least, I convinced myself he was nice. “It just seemed like what people were doing, and why not Tyrone? He was fine, older, and mostly nice to me. Emoni lives in Fairhill, the (real-life) neighborhood in north Philadelphia that serves as the center of the Hispanic community of the city.Įmoni was fourteen when she got pregnant by an older boy, Tyrone. He does visit once a year however, to see his mother, daughter, and granddaughter. ![]() Emoni’s mother died in childbirth after which her father Julio returned to Puerto Rico, confessing it was too painful for him to be around memories of Emoni’s mother. With the Fire on High is narrated by Emoni Santiago, a seventeen-year-old teenage mother of a two-year-old daughter she nicknamed “Babygirl.” Emoni lives with her paternal grandmother she calls ‘Buela. ![]() Although I did not read that book, this one is said to be quite a departure from the previous one. ![]() Elizabeth Acevedo’s first novel, The Poet X, won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, as well as the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the Pura Belpré Award. ![]()
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