![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Arturo is miserable in his job on a Pennsylvania mushroom farm, and Alma is consumed with guilt over Maribel's accident. They have placed all their hopes that this school will help Maribel become more of the girl she once was. ![]() About a year before they emigrated, Maribel had a horrific accident that left her brain damaged. ![]() Arturo and Alma Rivera and their 15-year-old daughter, Maribel, have come to Delaware from Patzcuaro, Mexico so Maribel can attend a special school.While this book tells the stories of multiple people from Latin America-Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, and Paraguay-it focuses especially on two families: This compelling novel by Cristina Henríquez tells the stories of some of those desperate people, all of whom are living in Newark, Delaware in the same dilapidated apartment building in 2008-2009. People who immigrate to the United States come for a reason, and very often that reason is shrouded in desperation. ![]()
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