TY  - GEN
N2  - After their daughter Maribel suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras leave Mexico and come to America. But upon settling at Redwood Apartments, a two-story cinderblock complex just off a highway in Delaware, they discover that Maribel's recovery--the piece of the American Dream on which they've pinned all their hopes--will not be easy. Every task seems to confront them with language, racial, and cultural obstacles. At Redwood also lives Mayor Toro, a high school sophomore whose family arrived from Panama fifteen years ago. Mayor sees in Maribel something others do not: that beyond her lovely face, and beneath the damage she's sustained, is a gentle, funny, and wise spirit. But as the two grow closer, violence casts a shadow over all their futures in America.
AB  - After their daughter Maribel suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras leave Mexico and come to America. But upon settling at Redwood Apartments, a two-story cinderblock complex just off a highway in Delaware, they discover that Maribel's recovery--the piece of the American Dream on which they've pinned all their hopes--will not be easy. Every task seems to confront them with language, racial, and cultural obstacles. At Redwood also lives Mayor Toro, a high school sophomore whose family arrived from Panama fifteen years ago. Mayor sees in Maribel something others do not: that beyond her lovely face, and beneath the damage she's sustained, is a gentle, funny, and wise spirit. But as the two grow closer, violence casts a shadow over all their futures in America.
T1  - The book of unknown Americans :a novel /
DA  - 2014.
CY  - New York :
AU  - Henríquez, Cristina,
CN  - PS3608.E565
PB  - Knopf,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2014.
N1  - Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed January 23, 2014).
ID  - 1374286
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Fiction.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - FICTION
KW  - Hispanic & Latino.
KW  - Family Life.
KW  - Literary.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Fiction.
KW  - Immigrants.
KW  - Teenagers.
KW  - Juvenile Literature.
SN  - 9780385350853
SN  - 0385350856
TI  - The book of unknown Americans :a novel /
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