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Nothing's Ever the Same

by Cyn Vargas
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Itzel's 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible—with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the piñata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day's highlights end up being CPR, an ambulance ride, and angioplasty. But when her father gets home from the hospital, his problems are far from over—and Itzel's are just getting started.

Nothing's Ever the Same chronicles a young girl's coming of age in Chicago—growing up as her family grows apart. In masterful fashion, Cyn Vargas gives us a touching and memorable and universal story about a marriage on the brink and a teenager looking for love. It's a short book that packs a wallop; it's also a beautiful meditation on dysfunction and forgiveness, and all the times in life to which we can never return.

The New Chicago Classics are a disparate set of titles united around a common theme: showcasing the city's up-and-coming literary talents as they produce enduring works. These excellent titles are destined to stand in the first rank of literature about the second city.

  • Creators

  • Series

    New Chicago Classics

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    May 14, 2024

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781948954884

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781948954884
      • File size: 696 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Booklist

      May 1, 2024
      After her father keels over from a heart attack at Itzel's thirteenth birthday party, she is faced with a bittersweet year of change. Although he is saved by her mother, the experience brings on a carpe diem attitude that doesn't bode well for this family unit. An only child of Guatemalan immigrants in Chicago during the early 1990s, Itzel lives within a tight-knit community and enjoys a lot of freedom, walking to school with her best friend, Fred, and riding the bus around town. But death, near death, and betrayal batter the secure cocoon of her childhood. Itzel navigates churning feelings, confusion, and thrills, all recounted in the same fresh and sincere voice as that describing her sexual awakening and awkwardness with Fred and the clumsy conversation with Father Joe about her fracturing family. Vargas, author of the short-story collection On the Way (2021), succinctly tracks the subterranean fuel feeding Itzel's angst in this deceptively simple and charming debut coming-of-age novel, namely the uprooting and displacement of Itzel's pueblo. Like others in her second-generation cohort, Itzel will have to find her own way to understand guilt and find forgiveness.

      COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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