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Annotation: When Kiki's mom loses custody of her, she must remain strong during her time in foster care. She has the will to survive, but will the choices she makes get her out in one piece?
"Life is funny. One minute you think you got everything figured out. Then just like that, something random happens to make you question it all. I felt like that a month ago when somebody I ain't seen in forever bumped my shoulder hard as I stood in line at Nordstrom. Just when I was about to curse a bitch out, I heard, "Kiki! Oh m god! I knew that was you!" I blinked heard when I heard Nausy's voice screaming. She hugged me tight before I totally realized it was her. I couldn't believe how beautiful she looked and so different from what I remembered when I met her over ten years ago.
Nausy used to be big and chocolate with plump lips that matched her oversized attitude. The first day we met at Ms. Val's foster house on South Dakota Avenue, she sounded out every single syllable in her whole name. "It's Nau-sy-ni-ka and get it right," she had told me. Her neck snapping from left to right for each syllable. We was kids then, but wow--look at her now."
Booktalk: When Kiki's deaf mother loses custody of her, she is instantly thrown into the foster case system and into a world of hurt. Struggling to free herself, Kiki is faced with the trials of being in the care of someone who sexually abuses her and the fear of never making it on her own. As a way to scrounge up money and escape her new imprisonment, she turns to selling her body to make ends meet. As her life falls from her reach, Kiki must make decisions to move away from her broken family and the friends who don't value her and fight back. Told through the eyes of a teenager trying anything she can to make it out in one piece, Kiki's story will shatter your heart and have you rooting for the underdog.
"Life is funny. One minute you think you got everything figured out. Then just like that, something random happens to make you question it all. I felt like that a month ago when somebody I ain't seen in forever bumped my shoulder hard as I stood in line at Nordstrom. Just when I was about to curse a bitch out, I heard, "Kiki! Oh m god! I knew that was you!" I blinked heard when I heard Nausy's voice screaming. She hugged me tight before I totally realized it was her. I couldn't believe how beautiful she looked and so different from what I remembered when I met her over ten years ago.
Nausy used to be big and chocolate with plump lips that matched her oversized attitude. The first day we met at Ms. Val's foster house on South Dakota Avenue, she sounded out every single syllable in her whole name. "It's Nau-sy-ni-ka and get it right," she had told me. Her neck snapping from left to right for each syllable. We was kids then, but wow--look at her now."
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