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Original Title:	The Book of Unknown Americans
ISBN:	0804191441 (ISBN13: 9780804191449)
Characters:	Arturo, Mayor, Maribel
Setting:	Delaware(United States)
Literary Awards:	Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2014)

The Book of Unknown Americans

Cristina Henriquez

Audio CD | Pages: 9 pages

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Title	:	The Book of Unknown Americans
Author	:	Cristina Henriquez
Book Format	:	Audio CD
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 9 pages
Published	:	June 3rd 2014 by Books on Tape
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Audiobook

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A dazzling, heartbreaking page-turner destined for breakout status: a novel that gives voice to millions of Americans as it tells the story of the love between a Panamanian boy and a Mexican girl: teenagers living in an apartment block of immigrant families like their own.
After their daughter Maribel suffers a near-fatal accident, the Riveras leave Mexico and come to America. But upon settling at Redwood Apartments, a two-story cinderblock complex just off a highway in Delaware, they discover that Maribel's recovery-the piece of the American Dream on which they've pinned all their hopes-will not be easy. Every task seems to confront them with language, racial, and cultural obstacles. At Redwood also lives Mayor Toro, a high school sophomore whose family arrived from Panama fifteen years ago. Mayor sees in Maribel something others do not: that beyond her lovely face, and beneath the damage she's sustained, is a gentle, funny, and wise spirit. But as the two grow closer, violence casts a shadow over all their futures in America. Peopled with deeply sympathetic characters, this poignant yet unsentimental tale of young love tells a riveting story of unflinching honesty and humanity that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be an American. An instant classic is born.

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'The Book of Unknown American,' by Cristina HenriQuez is a story about immigrants from Latin America. The heart of the story revolves around two families, the Riveras and the Toros. There are some side stories about other immigrants who live in the same apartment building with these two families. Some readers describe these side stories as being detractors and unnecessary to the story. I enjoyed them and thought they were an expansive breathing part of the novel. The lines from which the author

This is a quiet novel, powerful in its simplicity, its about the experience of coming to America and ultimately about lovebetween a man and a woman, parents for their children, community and country. This is not a dogmatic treatise on the immigrant debate nor does it romanticize or sentimentalize their lives, its about a journey born of necessity or of longing.Told in alternating voices and providing insights into the immigrant experience, I found their stories genuinely moving. Perhaps because

I felt the way I often felt in this country - simultaneously conspicuous and invisible, like an oddity whom everyone noticed but chose to ignoreI am somehow both fulfilled and empty after finishing the Book of Unknown Americans. It wasn't the easiest of reads, but I also could not stop. A peculiarity, a paradox that will stay with me for a long time. As an immigrant myself (a word that is a stigma now more than it was 5 years ago, when this book was written, because the world is going backwards)

This story recounts the immigrant experience of a vast array of Latinos on the eastern central coast of America, in Delaware. It moves in for close-ups of two families in particular, one Panamanian and one Mexican. Both families are legal immigrants, one coming to the United States for medical care, the other for opportunity. Christina Henriquez manages to make the experiences of these two families ring true and universal. Especially interesting was the voice of Mayor Toro, teenager and younger

RE-READING:1) I listened to it the first time; this time I'll read the book.2) This is our Skype bookclub pick for this month3) I'll meet the author in Vermont in MayFINISHED 1st time: 2/12/15:I finished this book and wrote my review on my mobile device. Unfortunately, that device has gone the way of the dinosaur and my notes didn't make it to the cloud in time.For now:I loved this novel of various immigrants from all over Latin America living in an apartment complex in Delaware. Immigration is

Alma and Arturo come from Mexico to Delaware, of all places, in the hopes that their brain-damaged daughter, Maribel, can get better help at a special needs school in the U.S. Their story is interspersed with testimonials from men and women from Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Panama and other places. All of the stories and vignettes combine into a whole that tells the tale of one immigrant community in America and the struggles they face trying to assimilate.While enlightening and

This was a 4.5 read for me.This book is definitely a contender for a top read for me.Every now and then I read a book that just touches my heart. The Book of Unknown Americans is such a book. From the first pages I was captivated by the sustained voices of the characters written with such grace and dignity as I felt their humanity, hopefulness, and despair to do what they had to do ensure a better life for their children and often, times themselves. I so enjoyed how the author connects the