![]() One day, Fabiola is approached by a detective. She slowly falls in love with a boy named Kasim, who is the best friend of Donna’s drug dealer boyfriend, Dray. ![]() Fabiola makes friends with a classmate who helps her improve her grades. Pri is the brawn of the group, Chantal is the brains, and Donna is the beauty. She grows close to her cousins, who are known around the school as the “Three Bees” because they protect each other fiercely. She often feels alone despite being surrounded by family.įabiola enrolls in school and struggles to adjust to American culture, which is simultaneously filled with money and poverty, along with an abundance of unhappiness. ![]() Fabiola finds Detroit cold and devoid of life she misses life back home with her friends and mother in Haiti. Fabiola is devastated and tries to persuade her aunt to free her mother from immigrant detention, but her aunt says that there is nothing to be done. ![]() They live in a house on the corner of American Street and Joy Road. Alone, Fabiola continues on to Detroit to move in with her cousins-Pri, Donna, and Chantal-and her Aunt (Matant) Jo. As she and her mother are reentering the US, immigrant authorities seize Fabiola’s mother, as they believe that she plans to overstay her visa and live permanently in the US. American Street tells the story of a teenage Haitian immigrant named Fabiola who moves back home to the United States, her country of birth. ![]()
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