She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. This “heartbreaking portrait of a family dealing with the realities of migration and separation” ( Time) is “a sweeping love story and tragic drama an authentic vision of what the American Dream looks like in a nationalistic country” ( Elle). “A profound, beautiful novel.” - People * “Poignant.” - BuzzFeed * “A breathtaking story of the unimaginable prices paid for a better life.” - Esquire WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTION A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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