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Placide, Jaira
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YA
Fourteen-year-old Mardi is haunted by nightmares of her final days in Haiti. Life in Brooklyn is not much better: she hides from her family and is harassed at school. Mardi's world is thrown into turmoil when her uncle Perrin joins them in America. Placide shares hints of the remembered horror that Mardi believes Perrin should have prevented. The vivid first-person narrative traces Mardi's credible reclamation of her own self-worth.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
March, 2002
1 reviews
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