FRED ACEVES
Author of a Kirkus Best Book of 2017 The Closest I've Come
& The New David Espinoza
BOOK REVIEWS
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Heart-wrenching, funny, hopeful, and not-to-be-missed.
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[A] memorable, hard-hitting portrait of a teenager trying to shape his own destiny after being
dealt a difficult hand.
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The Closest I've Come is an unflinching portrayal of boyhood and the seemingly impossible circumstances so many young people face.
KIRKUS REVIEWS
(starred review)
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
(starred review)
ELIZABETH ACEVEDO
(Bestselling author of The Poet X and With the Fire On High)
ABOUT
Fred Aceves is the author of The Closest I’ve Come, which was a Kirkus Best Book of 2017, and The New David Espinoza.
He was born in New York to a Mexican father and a Dominican mother. He spent most of his youth in Southern California and Tampa, Florida, where he lived in a poor neighborhood like the one described in The Closest I’ve Come.
At the age of 21 he started traveling around the world, living in Chicago, New York, The Czech Republic, France, Argentina, Bolivia, and Mexico. Among other jobs, he has worked as a delivery driver, server, cook, car salesman, freelance editor, and he taught English to executives abroad.
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