Tuesday, February 14, 2012
A Q&A with Ashley Hope Pérez, Author of “The Knife and the Butterfly”
Inspired by her teaching experience at Chávez High School in Houston, English alumna Ashley Hope Pérez writes about disadvantaged teens struggling to meet their obligations at home and follow their dreams. However her newest book “The Knife and the Butterfly” (Carolrhoda, Feb. 2011) is about the students she didn’t get to teach, the ones who slipped through the cracks in the system or dropped out of school.
The protagonist, Salvadoran Martín “Azael” Arevalo is one of those fallen students. The story
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