BOOK DISCUSSION DATE AND TIME:
Tuesday, August 11, 2015, at 11:00 A.M.
The Riveras move from Mexico to Delaware so Maribel, their brain-injured
daughter, can attend a special school. They move into an apartment
building filled with other recent immigrants, including the Toros, a
Panamanian family. The families become more closely tied than anyone
ever expected. Henriquez intersperses her main narrative with short
chapters that consist of first-person accounts of the other immigrants
living in the Riveras’s apartment building. These stories are
suspenseful, poignant and vividly illustrate a variety of immigrant
experiences. Henriquez’s novel was inspired by her father who came to
the U.S. from Panama in 1971.
(NovelistPlus)
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