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The Things We Didn't Know (Large Print Edition)
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ISBN13: 9781420515800
Publisher: Thorndike Press Large Print
Published: Aug 28 2024
Pages: 581
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This large print edition features an easy-to-read larger type size while preserving the complete text of the original edition.
The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster's Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez's lyrical, cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl's childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town.
Andrea RodrÃguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they've known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in the mountainside villages of Puerto Rico and promises to return.
Months later, when Andrea and Pablo are brought back to Massachusetts, they find their hometown significantly changed. As they navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture and face the harsh realities of growing up, they must embrace both the triumphs and heartache that mark the journey to adulthood.
A heartfelt, evocative portrait of another side of life in 1950s America, The Things We Didn't Know establishes Elba Iris Pérez as a sensational new literary voice.
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