Based on a true story of the saga of an American family that spans multiple continents, revolutionary upheavals and personal tragedy.
An American Immigrant : A Novel
✍ Scribed by Johanna Rojas Vann
- Book ID
- 112687182
- Publisher
- The Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 335 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780593445563
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✦ Synopsis
A Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment somewhere she never thought she 'd go--Colombia--in this heartwarming debut novel about rediscovering our family stories.
"A beautiful homage to a mother's bravery and to the grace and grit that is our inheritance."--Alicia Menendez, MSNBC anchor and creator and host of the Latina to Latina podcast
Twenty-five-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone calls, frustrated that she never quite takes the time to understand Melanie's life. When the opportunity arises for a big assignment that might save her flagging career, Melanie follows the story to the land of her mother's birth. She soon realizes Colombia has the potential to connect her, after all these years, to something she's long ignored: her heritage, the love...
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