On Sale Date: February 21st 2017
Pages: 304
Age Range: Young Adult
Margot Sanchez is facing serious punishment and grounding after she 'borrowed'' her fathers credit card to get herself some very stylish clothes to fit in with the popular girls. Her father owns a small grocery store in the Bronx, and by grounded Margot has to work to pay of her debt.She is in a total different world at work then from her private school, where she doesn't fit in with the rich teens who don't accept her for who she is.
She totally dislikes working at the stire , but some people she meets make it a little more fun. Like Moises, a guy who actively fights to end gentrification in their neighborhood. She really starts to like him, but her father & brother forbid her to date him as he doesn’t have the social standing preordained by Margot and her friends. The reader gets an up close and personal look at the diverse world of the South Bronx Margot lives and works in; the employees from the grocery store can barely make a living, her brother has been kicked out of school and now mismanages the store. In the end he really gets in trouble when Margot finds a box filled with money and drugs at the bottom of his closet, and it seems her mistake is teeny tiny small when she finds out her father is doing with one of the cashierista's, this made the end part of the book quite thrilling!
The Education of Margot Sanchez starts of a little slow paced, but it soon catches up in speed, and the plot also got better and better!!! I liked how it was not the usual YA story but, as I said earlier, a close look in the New York neigborhood Margot lives in: the South Bronx, which you don't see often. I really liked how the author make everything in Margot's family look nice on the outside first, but slowly on the reader sees that little bursts starts to appear in her family live, especially with her parents. I really didn't see the end with her father coming. And also her brother's part was unexpected, altough I didn't like him at all, he was quite rude. I though this book is very well written and it was an exciting and good read!!
