Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez285 Pages
Arturo and Alma Rivera come to the United States legally to enroll their daughter in a special school in order to help her recover from brain damage she sustained in a fall. The story follows their immersion into American society as well as a budding romance between their daughter Maribel and Mayor, the boy who lives next door. Interspersed throughout the story are narratives from other Hispanic Americans who came from several different countries to American.
The novel is well seated in its storytelling and the reader is quickly immersed into a world similar and yet different from their own. As with any successful novel, you quickly feel empathy for the characters and their predicament and it disabuses of common preconceptions fostered by the American media and politicians.
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