Talia’s chapters were enjoyable to read from, but it was harder to connect with the other characters of the story. I encourage you to do your own research if you are one of the people to say something like ‘send them back’, think about the families and think about these people as people. There are a lot of interesting points to take away from this novel and it really has me thinking. It really makes the reader think of the violence that we see in the states and how it is civilians while in countries like Colombia it’s militias or other kinds of groups. The main theme here is immigration but I also think there is a theme of is The United States better than any of the other countries in the world? Countries that the west sees as less than. This was a very moving story, and I am glad that I just this as my BOTM pick back in February of last year. The writing is the reason that I am not giving this a four star.

This was random and took me away from the story. Randomly, at sixty-four percent of the way into the book we go from third person perspective to second, and then to first. As stated before, there was a lot of description rather than dialogue, I would prefer getting to be in the character’s head or having them speak their thoughts and feelings. I do think that this story was beautifully told and powerful. The writing is where this gets confusing and messy for me. I will be looking at pictures and reading about the culture and history of the city of Bogota now that I have had an introduction to it. The reader gets great descriptions of Bogota and Colombia as a whole. I have not read that many books with a South American setting, so I enjoyed getting introduced to a new country and setting. I did like Elena’s chapters, but we should have got her perspective and the other two siblings’ perspectives earlier in the story as well. I was quite bored as there was not a lot of dialogue coming from the others, just descriptions and a lot of showing but not telling. Talia was my favorite character and her chapters really stood out from the rest. She must make a decision that will even divide her family more than it already is.

They stay past the date of their visas and continue to move and have children, that is until Mauro is deported and Elena is left in this new country to raise their children, Karina, Nando, and Talia. Once they are married and have a child, Mauro thinks that it would be best for the family to move to a safer environment: the United States.

Elena and Mauro grow up in a world full of violence in Colombia.

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