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Just about everybody from my country, Repblica Dominicana, dreams of moving to NEW YORK, aside from me. For the flight to New York, my first-time on a plane, my first-time away from Mami, I was finally free to cry. But little or nothing arrived. I observed as the green mountains of my loved island slipped away significantly below. Fifteen-year-old Nina Perez is confronted with another she never expected. She must leave her Garden of Eden, her lush island home in Samana, Dominican Republic, when she's delivered by her mother to live with her brother, Darrio, in New York, to seek out a better life. As Nina looks for some glimpse of familiarity amid the metropolitan and jarring world of Washington Heights, she learns to discover her own strength and independence. She finds ways to grow, similar to the orchids that blossom on her behalf fire escape. So when she is faced with unappealing secrets about her brother's business, she involves understand the realities of life in this new place. But then she satisfies him - that extra tall, green-eyed young man - one that she can't remove from her thoughts, who just might help her figure out how to see beauty regardless of tragedy. From your acclaimed writer of The Color of My Words comes a powerful story of a woman who must make her way in a new world and find her place within it.

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