Now that both of their daughters are gone, Auntie Bee tells everyone that she is “the brave one.”

Fabiola, her aunt and cousins leave Detroit for good and drive all night toward New Jersey where they will pick up Fabiola’s mother before heading back home. Fabiola is heartbroken by what has happened, but the detective arranges for her mother’s release from prison. Fabiola realizes this and rushes to the party where the cops have already killed Kasim.

She arranges for Kasim to sell drugs at a party, but in fact he is selling them on behalf of Dray. Their cousins got into dealing drugs themselves because of the money they could make selling them.įabiola cannot tell the detective about her cousins, so she devises a plan to get Dray arrested. Fabiola undertakes a secret mission to expose him, but she learns from her cousins that it’s actually their aunt who sells drugs for loan sharks. The cops believe that there was drug use at the party, and they think Dray is involved. Dray can be cruel to Donna sometimes.Ī detective approaches Fabiola and offers to free her mother in exchange for information that can connect Dray to a party. Over time she falls in love with Kasim, Donna’s boyfriend Dray’s best friend. She also makes friends at school, who helps her improve her grades. Fabiola becomes close friends with her cousins-the Three Bees-who protect each other fiercely. There are both poverty and wealth, as well as unhappiness. She misses life in Haiti, but Detroit is cold and desolate for her.įabiola enrolls in a school and struggles with American culture. Her mother is detained by immigration officers as she enters the US, and Fabiola has to move in with her cousins. The film American Street tells the story of a Haitian immigrant named Fabiola who moves back home to America. It follows the life of a young girl named Fabiola Toussaint who has to deal with her family’s move from Brooklyn, New York to Detroit in order for her father to find work. 1-Page Summary of American Street Overall SummaryĪmerican Street is a novel by Haitian-American author Ibi Zoboi.

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