![]() ![]() However, as varied as their origins may be, in the eyes of the white Americans who populate their workplaces and schools, they are all the same. They came for many reasons: to escape violence, to receive medical care, to start a show on Broadway, to become a professional fighter, and many more. Though a simple love story between two teenagers remains at the novel’s center, narratives from the building’s other tenants are present sporadically throughout the work, each allowing these characters to share their own migration stories. While centered on a banal teenage romance between two tenants, this novel not only creates bittersweet portraits of Latin American immigrants in the United States, but also tells a compelling story of loss and forgiveness. ![]() ![]() ![]() These people are the titular characters of Cristina Henríquez’s novel The Book of Unknown Americans. In a low-rent apartment complex in an unnamed Delaware town live a family from Mexico seeking treatment for their daughter’s brain injury, a Panamanian family escape ng violence and poverty, a performer from Puerto Rico, a Paraguayan former boxer, a Guatemalan refugee, and many others who’ve left behind families, homes, and everything else in Latin America to create a new life within the United States. ![]()
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