"When Lizet-the daughter of Cuban immigrants and the first in her family to graduate from high school-secretly applies and is accepted to an ultra-elite college, her parents are furious at her decision to leave Miami. Just weeks before she's set to start school, her parents divorce and her father sells her childhood home, leaving Lizet, her mother, and Leidy-Lizet's older sister, a brand-new single mom-without a steady income and scrambling for a place to live...Pulled between life at college and the needs of those she loves, Lizet is faced with difficult decisions that will change her life --
Lizet’s older sister Leidy graduated from high school and then took the next logical step. Her boyfriend hadn’t proposed yet so she went off birth control and got pregnant to try to force him to marry her.
Lizet’s response to this was to secretly apply to colleges and win a scholarship to an elite northern liberal arts school.
Guess whose decision infuriated her parents and was repeatedly called a betrayal?
