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Young Adults

Isha, nacida do corazón

By Fina Casalderrey

About this book

Isha is upset. A comment by a classmate annoyed her. She does not question the love by her parents, but the fact that she was adopted is usually a headache. César, her father, decides to tell her once again the story of her life, which Isha already knows well, and with it we travel to a magic world of fantasy that can only be found in India.

Book fragment

— Mum , I want to be white, like you.

— What do you mean, Isha?

— I want to have skin like yours, I want to be white.

— What? If your face runs off what shall I do?

— Don’t laugh at me, Mum, it can be done... Michael Jackson...

— Don’t be silly. You are so beautiful! Your skin and your soul are beautiful.

Isha is once again a blue bird lost in the air and Sara tries to convince her of the privilege of her delicious cinnamon skin she has inherited from the people who are born in the magical lands of India.

—Don’t you see, my love, that everyone here goes to the beach to roast, suffer and sweat so that their skin becomes darker? You don’t need to do that, your skin is already beautiful without burning it.

—Yes, but… I’d rather had skin like yours.

—Sweety, why do you come up with this now? You know about this far too well! Something happen to you today…