Bad angel

Set in one of New York City's toughest neighborhoods, Bad Angel is the hard-hitting and heartbreaking story of a Dominican-American teenage mother, Bianca Diaz, struggling to see past the hopelessness of her situation to make the right decisions for herself and her baby daughter. Told in shifting first-person voices that ring with truth and the poetry of the streets, the novel offers a variety of memorable characters. There's Teresa, Bianca's mother, a deeply religious woman who has sacrificed much to keep her family together, but finally comes to the painful conclusion that she must break it…