pickI liked this, but I‘m not sure I connected with it quite as much as I‘d hoped to - a me-not-it issue.
Alma and Arturo move from Mexico to Delaware, to get teenage daughter Maribel the special ed support she needs. Mayor, lonely & of similar age, whose family come from Panama, watches them move in. Interspersed with the growing friendship between the two families, we learn the stories of the other residents, the myriad hopes that brought them
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I did like the relationship between Mayor and Maribel, the difference him seeing her as herself rather than a girl-with-a-traumatic-brain-injury makes. I‘m curious, though, as to why she never gets to tell her own story. 3y