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Oscar Cásares
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A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States.
From a distance, the towns along the US-Mexican border have dangerous reputations - on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents - and Brownsville is no different. But to 12-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives - and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death.
For Nina, Brownsville is where she grew up, where she lost her first and only love, and where she stayed as her relatives moved away and her neighborhood deteriorated. It's the place where she has buried all her secrets - and now she has another: She's providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another.
Separated from the violent human traffickers who brought him across the border and pursued by the authorities, Daniel must stay completely hidden. But Orly's arrival threatens to put them all at risk of exposure.
Tackling the crisis of US immigration policy from a deeply human angle, Where We Come From explores through an intimate lens the ways that family history shapes us, how secrets can burden us, and how finding compassion and understanding for others can ultimately set us free.
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Home Remedies
- Stories
- De: Xuan Juliana Wang
- Narrado por: Catherine Ho, Tim Chiou, Feodor Chin, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 11
Xuan Juliana Wang's remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions. In stories of love, family, and friendship, here are the voices, faces, and stories of a new generation never before captured in fiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jubilant journeys
- De Leo en 05-14-19
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Talk to Me
- De: John Kenney
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 36
It's a story that Ted Grayson has reported time and time again in his job as a network TV anchor: the public downfall of those at the top. He just never imagined that it would happen to him. After his profanity-laced tirade is caught on camera, his reputation and career are destroyed, leaving him without a script for the first time in years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and Fascinating
- De D en 07-12-23
De: John Kenney
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When We Fell Apart
- A Novel
- De: Soon Wiley
- Narrado por: Daniel K. Isaac, Shannon Tyo
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
When the Seoul police inform Min that his girlfriend Yu-jin has committed suicide, he’s sure it can't be true. She was successful, ambitious, happy, just on the cusp of graduating from university and claiming the future she’d always dreamed of.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cultural story masquerading as a murder mystery
- De Barbara S en 02-05-23
De: Soon Wiley
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The Great Mistake
- A Novel
- De: Jonathan Lee
- Narrado por: Graham Halstead
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 61
Andrew Haswell Green is dead, shot at the venerable age of eighty-three, when he thought life could hold no more surprises. The killing - on Park Avenue in broad daylight, on Friday the 13th - shook the city. Born to a struggling farmer, Green was a self-made man without whom there would be no Central Park, no Metropolitan Museum of Art, no Museum of Natural History, no New York Public Library. But Green had a secret, a life locked within him that now, in the hour of his death, may finally break free.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Complete misfire of a biography.
- De Smith's Rock en 06-20-21
De: Jonathan Lee
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Live a Little
- A Novel
- De: Howard Jacobson
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 10
At the age of 90-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. Her tongue, meanwhile, remains as sharp as ever. She spends her days stitching macabre messages into her needlework and tormenting her two long-suffering carers with tangled stories of her love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walk without the aid of a frame, and speak without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors. Unlike Beryl, he forgets nothing - especially not the shame of a childhood incident.
De: Howard Jacobson
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Greenland
- A Novel
- De: David Santos Donaldson
- Narrado por: Theo Solomon
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 24
In 1919, Mohammed el Adl, the young Egyptian lover of British author E. M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed’s story. Kip has only three weeks until his publisher’s deadline to immerse himself in the mind of Mohammed who, like Kip, is Black, queer, an Other. The similarities don't end there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unexpected story with literary depth
- De Hannah Aron en 06-01-24
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The Hummingbird
- A Novel
- De: Sandro Veronesi
- Narrado por: Victor Vertunni, Silvia Presente, Kristin Atherton
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 30
Marco Carrera is “the hummingbird,” a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges—suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman—Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity for living.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful book!
- De Elizabeth Lawson en 02-07-22
De: Sandro Veronesi
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My Year Abroad
- A Novel
- De: Chang-rae Lee
- Narrado por: Lawrence Kao
- Duración: 16 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 272
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 243
Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening experiences that transform his view of the world, of Pong, and of himself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Worst narration ever
- De Unhappy Sirius Camper en 02-07-21
De: Chang-rae Lee
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Lights All Night Long
- A Novel
- De: Lydia Fitzpatrick
- Narrado por: Michael Crouch
- Duración: 12 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 222
Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. But all is not right in Ilya's world: He's consumed by the fate of his older brother, Vladimir, the magnetic rebel to Ilya's dutiful wunderkind, back in their tiny Russian hometown. Just before Ilya left, the murders of three young women rocked the town's usual calm, and Vladimir found himself in prison. With the help of Sadie, who has secrets of her own, Ilya embarks on a mission to prove Vladimir's innocence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't Stop Listening
- De Randi M. en 04-16-19
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At Least You Have Your Health
- De: Madi Sinha
- Narrado por: Sooneela Nankani
- Duración: 12 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Dr. Maya Rao is a gynecologist trying to balance a busy life. With three young children, a career, and a happy marriage, she should be grateful—on paper, she has it all. But after a disastrous encounter with an entitled patient, Maya is forced to walk away from the city hospital where she’s spent her entire career.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun story illuminating the wellness industry
- De Barbara S en 04-29-22
De: Madi Sinha
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Mother Land
- A Novel
- De: Leah Franqui
- Narrado por: Amy McFadden
- Duración: 12 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 73
When Rachel Meyer, a 30-something foodie from New York, agrees to move to Mumbai with her Indian-born husband, Dhruv, she knows some culture shock is inevitable. Blessed with a curious mind and an independent spirit, Rachel is determined to learn her way around the hot, noisy, seemingly infinite metropolis she now calls home. But the expat American’s sense of adventure is sorely tested when her mother-in-law, Swati, suddenly arrives from Kolkata - 1,000 miles away - alone, with an even more shocking announcement: She’s left her husband of more than 40 years and moving in with them.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This could have been so good...
- De Amazon Customer en 09-01-20
De: Leah Franqui
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The Tiger Mom's Tale
- De: Lyn Liao Butler
- Narrado por: Natalie Naudus
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 61
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 55
Lexa Thomas has never quite fit in. Having grown up in a family of blondes while more closely resembling Constance Wu, she's neither White enough nor Asian enough. Visiting her father in Taiwan as a child, Lexa thought she'd finally found a place where she belonged. But that was years ago, and even there, some never truly considered her to be a part of the family. When her estranged father dies unexpectedly, leaving the fate of his Taiwanese family in Lexa's hands, she is faced with the choice to return to Taiwan and claim her place in her heritage.
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5 out of 5 stars
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There is more to the story than the title suggests
- De KEM en 07-12-21
De: Lyn Liao Butler
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Confessions of the Other Sister
- A Novel
- De: Beth Harbison
- Narrado por: Orlagh Cassidy, Katie Schorr
- Duración: 9 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Frances Turner has a confession to make: her sister, Crosby, who has built her life on good luck and good looks, drives her crazy. The woman wakes up in the morning with perfect hair. Men flock to her. And she somehow managed to jump out of the frying pan and into fame, writing a blockbuster novel—and making a zillion bucks—without even trying. And Frances, who has followed every rule, is stuck in pause.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and touching!
- De Amanda en 05-10-23
De: Beth Harbison
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Night Wherever We Go
- A Novel
- De: Tracey Rose Peyton
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 8 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
On a struggling Texas plantation, six enslaved women slip from their sleeping quarters and gather in the woods under the cover of night. The Lucys—as they call the plantation owners, after Lucifer himself—have decided to turn around the farm’s bleak financial prospects by making the women bear children. They have hired a “stockman” to impregnate them. But the women are determined to protect themselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The historical content of how king Black woman have healed themselves in the mist of a world trying to kill them- amazing read!
- De Amazon Customer en 12-05-23
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Skinship
- Stories
- De: Yoon Choi
- Narrado por: Greta Jung, Intae Kim, Jennifer Kim, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
A long-married couple is forced to confront their friend's painful past when a church revival comes to a nearby town ... A woman in an arranged marriage struggles to connect with the son she hid from her husband for years ... A well-meaning sister unwittingly reunites an abuser with his victims. Through an indelible array of lives, Yoon Choi explores where first and second generations either clash or find common ground,
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite from this year!
- De Marla Lev en 12-14-21
De: Yoon Choi
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Last Summer on State Street
- De: Toya Wolfe
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 307
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 288
Felicia “Fe Fe” Stevens is living with her vigilantly loving mother and older teenaged brother, whom she adores, in building 4950 of Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes. It’s the summer of 1999, and her high-rise is next in line to be torn down by the Chicago Housing Authority. She, with the devout Precious Brown and Stacia Buchanan, daughter of a Gangster Disciple Queen-Pin, form a tentative trio and, for a brief moment, carve out for themselves a simple life of Double Dutch and innocence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book was depressing and a slow burn
- De mel en 08-18-22
De: Toya Wolfe
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Maggie-Now
- A Novel
- De: Betty Smith
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 56
In Brooklyn's unforgiving urban jungle, Maggie Moore is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. Confronted by her quarrelsome Irish immigrant father, the feckless lover who may become her husband, and others, Maggie must learn to navigate a cycle of loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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no unabridged
- De sally en 08-03-21
De: Betty Smith
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Tomorrow Will Be Better
- De: Betty Smith
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 8 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 111
Tomorrow Will Be Better tells the story of Margy Shannon, a shy but joyfully optimistic young woman just out of school who lives with her parents and witnesses how a lifetime of hard work, poverty, and pain has worn them down. Her mother's resentment toward being a housewife and her father's inability to express his emotions result in a tense home life where Margy has no voice. Unable to speak up against her overbearing mother, Margy takes refuge in her dreams of a better life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartfelt and Heart-wrenchingly Real!
- De M. Ryder en 02-16-22
De: Betty Smith
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Where We Come From
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- Sara J
- 11-23-20
Loved this book
This is a heartwarming tale about love, loss, and belonging told, alternately, through a woman in her 60s, and a 12 year old boy. Highly recommend!
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- NSJ
- 07-31-19
Fantastic Read
This is such an amazing story, not just of the complexities of illegal immigration, but also border culture, identity, and family. I saw so many faces of people I know from my hometown in the characters, and have had similar conversations to theirs. I highly recommend to anyone!
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- Katherine Christian
- 03-27-23
An extremely well-told story
This is an eye- and heart-opening story. I loved every minute of it and would recommend it to anyone!
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