• Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

  • By: Isabel Quintero
  • Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
  • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (149 ratings)

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Gabi, a Girl in Pieces

By: Isabel Quintero
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
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Named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2014

July 24: My mother named me Gabriella, after my grandmother who, coincidentally, didn't want to meet me when I was born because my mother was unmarried, and therefore living in sin. My mom has told me the story many, many, many, times of how, when she confessed to my grandmother that she was pregnant with me, her mother beat her. BEAT HER! She was 25. That story is the basis of my sexual education and has reiterated why it's important to wait until you're married to give it up. So now, every time I go out with a guy, my mom says, "Ojos abiertos, piernas cerradas." Eyes open, legs closed. That's as far as the birds and the bees talk has gone. And I don't mind it. I don't necessarily agree with that whole wait until you're married crap, though. I mean, this is America and the 21st century; not Mexico 100 years ago. But, of course, I can't tell my mom that because she will think I'm bad. Or worse: trying to be White.

Gabi Hernandez chronicles her last year in high school in her diary: Cindy's pregnancy, Sebastian's coming out, the cute boys, her father's meth habit, and the food she craves. And best of all, the poetry that helps forge her identity.

©2014 Isabel Quintero (P)2014 Listening Library

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Very good YA

This is about a girl journaling her senior year in high school. It has every emotion and drama some students face: addiction, teen sex and consequences, and family dysfunction. It's a good emotional ride. Narrator did good. I would read another book by this YA author.

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Reading in Spanish was off

The story was fine but I was really distracted by the fact that the reader did not know how to read some of the words in Spanish. Not sure if it was intentional but it was bad.

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I can see what people are saying.

I can see what people are saying, but I think she did a very good job, reading this book for a non-litina. sometimes it was a little difficult to understand her, but there was a reference to a word I didn't understand, and then I understood. I can see how this book is on the band list, especially for the younger viewers, but for someone my age, we would enjoy books like this, not because Cindy got pregnant in high-school, but because it's more appropriate for an older audience.

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A must

Great book and storytelling. A must for all women. True story of adversity and inspiration

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Que padre!

This was a wonderful book. I felt that Gabi was me when I was in HS. Im definitely sharing this book with my teenage daughter. The struggles are real.

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Eh

The author seems like she’s trying to relate to a teen. Gabi doesn’t sound like a senior in high school, she sounds like a 7th grader.

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A must read for Latinas and their mothers

The author has definitely taken time to describe some very poignant cultural rules for Mexican girls. "Ojos abiertos, piernas cerradas" was my favorite quote from the novel.

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Why would the have someone who doesn’t speak Spanish narrate this?

It’s hard to listen to because the narrator doesn’t speak Spanish so throughout the book just as you start to connect with the story and family the bad Spanish throws it all off. It’s a real shame because it is a beautiful story, more consideration needs to be placed in who reads and tells latin stories. Especially since this book gets so emotional, a better speaker would really knock it out of the park!

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Oh the sweet HS years!

loved living so many of my HS memories through Gabbi. The narrator threw me off when she miss pronounced many of the spanish words- but besides that it was a great book.

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A rich, thoughtful book

Gabi, A Girl in Pieces is a stunning book, full of humor, personality, and tenderness. Framed as a journal kept by Gabi, a young Mexican-American woman with a passion for poetry, the story follows her life during her senior year of high school. Gabi struggles with her identity, her sense of self, her feelings about her body, about boys, about sex and about the complex relationships she has with her family and friends—and she explores them all through poetry. Many difficult things happen during the school year (some of which warrant trigger warnings, which I’ll place under a spoiler at the bottom of this review), and at times this lovely book is wrenchingly sad, full of Gabi’s grief and anger, but it’s balanced by her hopefulness, her wry humor, and unbridled enthusiasm for the things she loves—poetry, and mouthwatering descriptions of food.
I listened to the audiobook of Gabi, A Girl in Pieces, and I thought that the narration by Kyla Garcia was fantastic, emotional and engaging.
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Trigger warnings (which include spoilers): multiple pregnancies, and one abortion; a gay character is disowned by his family (but is supported by the narrator); multiple references to domestic violence; non-graphic references to drug use; a drug overdose/possible suicide; non-graphic consensual sexual content; references to sexual assault

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