![]() ![]() Xiomara pours her innermost self into poems and dreams of competing in poetry slams, a passion she’s certain her conservative Dominican parents will never accept. Both intrigued and disgusted by the advances of her peers and older men, she begins a secret relationship with her lab partner Aman, who seems interested in more than her curves (“who knew words,/ when said by the right person,/ by a boy who raises your temperature,/ moves heat like nothing else?”). As her confirmation nears (after two failed attempts), Xiomara begins to voice her uncertainties about the Catholic faith and patriarchal piety pressed on her by her mother and the church. ![]() And her tough exterior-she’s always ready to fend off unwelcome advances and unkind words-hides questions and insecurities. ![]() Harlem sophomore Xiomara Batista isn’t saintly like her virtuous twin brother. ![]()
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