The book of unknown Americans
(2014)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/HENRIQUEZ,C
ESL/FICTION/HENRIQUEZ,C
ESL/FICTION/HENRIQUEZ,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014
EDITION
[Various editions]
DESCRIPTION
285 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780385350846, 0385350848 :, 0345806409 (Vintage Books trade paperback), 9780345806406
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Also published: New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2015. 285 pages
"Arturo and Alma Rivera have lived their whole lives in Mexico. One day, their beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Maribel, sustains a terrible injury, one that casts doubt on whether she'll ever be the same. And so, leaving all they have behind, the Riveras come to America with a single dream: that in this country of great opportunity and resources, Maribel can get better. When Mayor Toro, whose family is from Panama, sees Maribel in a Dollar Tree store, it is love at first sight. It's also the beginning of a friendship between the Rivera and Toro families, whose web of guilt and love and responsibility is at this novel's core."--Jacket