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Violence
Some
Gang violence in Colombia; dangerous border crossing risks; a brutal detention scene
Language
Barely any
Mild language throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult relationship in backstory; nothing explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate drinking in social settings
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Family separation as ongoing trauma, the violence of immigration policy, longing for reunification
What this book is about
Talia is a Colombian teenager who escapes a reform school to try to reach her family in the US — the family that has been split across two countries by deportation, immigration limbo, and the impossible choices her parents were forced to make. Patricia Engel's compressed, lyrical novel follows a Colombian family across two decades and two continents, asking what it costs to survive immigration and whether the family left behind can ever be whole.
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immigration and deportation as central trauma
dangerous border crossing
family separation
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