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With the Fire on High 2019

By Elizabeth Acevedo

  • Young adult fiction, cooking & food, Young adult fiction, people & places, united states, hispanic & latino, Young adult fiction, coming of age, New York Times bestseller

Hardcover 4.3★ · 164

With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.

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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and grave.

  • contemporarynostalgic
  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic
  • intimateepic

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