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BEHAR, Ruth.Lucky Broken Girl. [NY]: Nancy Paulsen Books [2017]. 8vo, [x] 243pp. Navy boards with spine stamped in green. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket.Signed by the author, Ruth Behar!

First edition.2018 Pura Belpre Award-winner! Based on acclaimed author Ruth Behars childhood,Lucky Broken Girlfollows Ruthie Mizrahi, a young Cuban-Jewish immigrant who recently emigrated from Castros Cuba to New York City with her family. Just when shes finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of Englishand enjoying her reign as her neighborhoods hopscotch queena horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthies world shrinks, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger as she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.