CHARACTERS
She is the narrator and main character of the novel.
Who is Fabiola Toussaint?
Fabiola arrives in the United States from this country.
What is Haiti?
Brains, Beauty, and Brazen
What did the nickname the Three Bees stand for?
It is the narrator's age when the story begins.
What is 16?
It is the country were the narrator was raised.
What is Haiti?
This mysterious man sings outside the house.
Who is Bad Leg?
After being separated from her mother, Fabiola travels to this city to live with relatives.
What is Detroit?
She threatened to charge money if the narrator spoke Creole.
Who is Matant Jo?
This important fact allows the narrator to enter the country when her mother cannot.
What is she is a U.S. citizen.
At this New York airport, Fabiola and Manman are separated.
What is Kennedy Airport/JFK?
The person detained during the family's arrival in America.
Who is Manman/ Valerie Toussaint?
A disturbing story the girls see on the local news.
What is a girl died after taking drugs?
This behavior from Pri causes Fabiola to think, “I want to grab her little lips and twist them myself.”
What is Pri’s (dirty mouth) use of profanity?
The method the narrator used to communicate with her cousins before meeting them in person.
What is the Internet/ Facebook?
Manman is expected to be taken to a detention facility in this state.
What is New Jersey?
The man the narrator believes the mysterious singer actually represents.
Who is Papa Legba?
Pri tells the narrator what happened to her father.
What is her father was murdered.
Fabiola holds back the Creole insults she wants to say to this airport worker.
Who is Deborah Howard?
Matant Jo recently experienced this health problem.
What is a stroke?
Before coming to the United States, Fabiola lived in this Haitian city.
What is Port-au-Prince?
The narrator sees this person attack the man outside the house.
Who is Dray?
The narrator does this in the middle of the night after arriving at her new home.
What is set up and pray at her Vodou shrine?
Fabiola promises herself she will never ask about Matant Jo’s work again after receiving this type of response from Chantal.
What is a sharp/sarcastic response?
This action by the narrator results in one cousin opening up to tell her story.
What is braid her hair?
Matant Jo's home sits at the corner of these two streets.
What are American Street and Joy Road?