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What Can(t) Wait

Marissa has smarts and plenty of promise, but she's marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood — and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college. When her home life becomes unbearable, Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere — and suddenly neither her best friend or boyfriend can get through to her.

What Can't Wait tells the story of one girl's survival in a world in which family trumps individual success and independence, and self-reliance the only key that can unlock the door to the future.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 234
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780761361558
  • Genres
  • contemporary, fiction, romance, family, cultural, teen
  • Release date
  • 2011