Paso, TX: Cinco Puntos Press.
Sixteen year old Gabi Hernandez, a senior in high school, takes us through her year via her diary. Gabi's best friends, Cindy and Sebastian, each deal with a crisis - pregnancy and coming out, but Gabi has issues of her own. Gabi faces multiple relationships with boys, an addict father, and deciding whether to leave for college or remain at home with her family.
Like Quintero says, "for all the gorditas, flaquitas, and in-between girls trying to make their space in the world." I couldn't have described it any better. Gabi is a "fat" girl who loves to eat and she doesn't hide it and it doesn't impede her from anything. A great book for any girl out there.
Quintero used many elements to make this book exceptional. There is quite a bit of emotional development for the characters. Gabi deals with the overdose of her father, losing her virginity, and leaving for college as well as dealing with her best friends issues. Cindy experiences a pregnancy that was the result of date rape and Sebastian deals with the repercussions of his coming out. The style she chooses by writing the novel as diary entries help us relate to Gabi and her Mexican culture is brought out with the Spanish words thrown in.
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