01819cam a2200313 i 4500 1841545879 TxAuBib 20241230120000.0 231205s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781948954877 1948954877 TxAuBib rda Vargas, Cyn, author. Nothing's ever the same : a novella / Cyn Vargas. Nothing is ever the same : a novella. First Edition. Chicago : Tortoise Books, 2024. 168 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Itzel's 13th birthday party starts in just about the unluckiest way possible--with her dad having a heart attack. In those frantic moments, the piata and the frosted sheetcake and the Styrofoam cups of orange soda are forgotten; the day's highlights end up being CPR, an ambulance ride, and angioplasty. But when her father gets home from the hospital, his problems are far from over--and Itzel's are just getting started. Nothing's Ever the Same chronicles a young girl's coming of age in Chicago--growing up as her family grows apart. In masterful fashion, Cyn Vargas gives us a touching and memorable and universal story about a marriage on the brink and a teenager looking for love. It's a short book that packs a wallop; it's also a beautiful meditation on dysfunction and forgiveness, and all the times in life to which we can never return. 20241230. Teenage girls Fiction. Dysfunctional families Fiction. Hispanic American people Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) Fiction. TXKIP