What Can't Wait
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| Author | Ashley Hope Pérez |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Young adult fiction |
| Set in | Houston |
| Publisher | Carolrhoda Lab |
Publication date | March 1, 2011 |
| Publication place | United States |
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| Pages | 240 pp |
| ISBN | 978-0-7613-6155-8 |
| OCLC | 656847496 |
What Can't Wait is a young adult novel by Ashley Hope Pérez, published by Carolrhoda Lab in 2011. The story portrays a Mexican American teenage girl living in Houston who is torn between the demands of her family and her ambitions for the future. Karen Coats of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books wrote that this novel portrays how many immigrant families do not want their teenagers to absorb Americanized attitudes even though the immigrants came to the U.S. to get a better life. This is the author's first novel.
Juan Castillo of NBC News wrote that this book and another one of Pérez's novels, The Knife and the Butterfly, explore what it means to grow up as a Hispanic or Latino teenager in the United States "amid difficult circumstances."
The book was released on March 1, 2011.