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Book Description

To Hell and Back
A gritty thriller told through the eyes of Jenny Rivera, a teenage girl who relies on her inner strength to confront and overcome the heartache and obstacles she is faced with on the streets of New York City . In a crucial act of violence that will change her young life forever, teenager Jenny Rivera is confronted with a near-death experience where she revisits the events that have led her to this tragic point. In this journey, we see her abandoned by her father and neglected by her addict mother, and soon left to care for her younger siblings by succumbing to the vices of street life in the ghetto.
Jenny's own inherent desires to survive and to be loved are so powerful that they have the potential to destroy her. Is it too late for her to escape this treacherous path to self-destruction?

About the Author

Carmen Noboa-Espinal was born and raised in New York City . She is currently working on several novels and a series of children's books dedicated to Hispanic culture. She is a novelist, lecturer and a screenwriter, but her most important roles in life are those of wife and mother to her two children