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Naive (Paperback)
Paula Lopez Crespin
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R665
Discovery Miles 6 650
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Naive is a humorous and thought-provoking, coming-of-age story set
in Denver, Colorado during the mid 1970s. Nina is a girl caught
between different worlds. As Denver continues to struggle with
forced integration and the civil rights movement, Nina's divorced
parents have different views of what it means to be Hispanic,
living in the United States. Her mother feels her own fair skin and
willingness to assimilate into the white culture are the keys to
success. Nina's father is proud of his Mexican heritage and resents
his ex-wife and the shame she is trying to instill in their
children because of their dark skin. Meanwhile, Dee, Nina's best
friend, who is white, has her own troubles fitting into a family
where she just doesn't belong. Dee loves dating foxy, street-wise
Chicanos and urges Nina to embrace her Hispanic roots. Instead,
Nina has fallen in love with Calvin, a young black man on a
football scholarship, who attends a largely white college in a
rural Colorado community. Nina confronts racism, date rape, teen
pregnancy, dark family secrets and a hatred so strong that it
eventually drives someone to murder.
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