Nothing's Ever the Same

✍ Scribed by Cyn Vargas

• Book ID: 115145868
• Publisher: Tortoise Books
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 87 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781948954877

✦ Synopsis

Itzel's 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible --with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the piñata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day's highlights end up being CPR, an ambulance ride, and angioplasty. But when her father gets home from the hospital, his problems are far from over--and Itzel's are just getting started.

Nothing's Ever the Same chronicles a young girl's coming of age in Chicago--growing up as her family grows apart. In masterful fashion, Cyn Vargas gives us a touching and memorable and universal story about a marriage on the brink and a teenager looking for love. It's a short book that packs a wallop; it's also a beautiful meditation on dysfunction and forgiveness, and all the times in life to which we can never return.

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