Image it: The US, January 2020. A e-book with a fairly blue and white cowl is making the rounds on the bookish web. The blue ink types a stupendous hummingbird motif in opposition to a creamy background, a chook related to the solar god Huitzilopochtli in Aztec mythology. Black barbed wire, directly delicate and menacing, cuts the sample right into a grid resembling an association of Talavera tiles. The bundle is eye-catching, ostensibly Mexican in really feel, and evocative of borders and the migrant expertise.
The e-book tells the story of a bookstore proprietor in Acapulco, Mexico, who’s compelled to flee her house when a drug cartel murders everybody in her household aside from her younger son at a quinceañera. She and the boy are compelled to grow to be migrants and embark on a treacherous journey north to the U.S. border, evading the cartel and befriending fellow migrants alongside the way in which. The e-book is being lauded not simply because the “it” e-book of the season however because the immigration story. It will get the Oprah remedy and is praised by everybody from Salma Hayek to the good Sandra Cisneros, who known as it “the great novel of Las Américas.”
It’s been over 5 years, and this e-book remains to be the bane of my existence.
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