Have you ever met someone that looks like a happy person and has the best childhood?Well as you may not know this novel is about a 15year old teen girl named mariama. Mariam was just a ordinary girl who was born here in the bronx but her parents were from Guinea,Conakry.As a little girl mariama was a very happy person until that one day she started going to her aunts house because as a little girl her parents couldn't take care of her because they were too busy running the restaurant they owned,so as from that point and on mariama kept going to her aunts house and at the age of 9 she was raped by her aunts son and his friends she was very embarrassed and regreted going to her aunts house................If you still want to know what happend to mariama towards the years of her childhood keep reading on trust me you wont regret it.