Description: Booklist STARRED REVIEW [A] series of alternately cheeky, macabre, and serious vignettes about her family members, the city, and her classmates, Anamaria experiments with poetry structures and formats as she explores young womanhood and self-love...Fans of The House on Mango Street or The House of the Spirits will be riveted. Jasmine Warga , Newbery Honor-award winning author of Other Words For Home and My Heart and Other Black Holes In bold and gorgeous verse, Varela crafts a deeply moving and evocative story that grapples unflinchingly with issues of mental health. This is a book our young people need. Alessandra Narvaez Varela is a fresh new voice, and I can't wait to see what she writes next. Publishers Weekly Debut author Narvez Varela's inventive novel in verse plays with poetic form and time travel to detail a Mexican teen's struggles with self-love and depression...Much like plumbing the contents of a poet's composition notebook, this layered story rewards multiple reads. Francisco X. Stork , author of The Memory of Light A lyrical, deeply-felt portrayal of a young woman's love for a broken city and a broken self, and the hard-won emergence of hope. Kirkus Reviews A gritty and absorbing tale of learning to love oneself and one's roots, warts and all. Denise Chavez, bookseller, activist, and author of Loving Pedro Infante Devastatingly profound, at once exuberant and heartbreaking, Thirty Talks Weird Love, is filled with linguistic pyrotechnics and an expansive heart. Cd. Jurez/El Paso del Norte is elevated, and celebrated by Alessandra Narvez Varela , with a deep ferocity of understanding, mercy, and love. She holds the pulse of Border life powerfully in her hands. Healer she has become through her words.

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