You’re so sweet! Thank you! I was grateful to find a book that made me want to write about it. There haven’t been a lot of them this year- as you know.

There is definitely an appalling lack of compassion in our new government. Very disheartening.

You should give it a listen if you have time. It is relevant on so many levels, but not in your face, if that makes sense. At its heart it is a beautifully written story.

Thank you! It has stayed with me as well. Also, Lucky Boy- if you read it- left me with the same deeply sad feeling about how immigrants are being treated in this country right now. And why?

The language barrier thing. I have never found that, with a little effort, I’ve been unable to communicate with someone who doesn’t speak the same language as me. Definitely not eloquently but I think the general message gets across. But books like this, that illuminate that difficulty, are necessary so that we all try a little harder, to empathize a little more.

I loved it too, even though it made me so sad. Henriquez did a beautiful job of putting the reader in the characters’ skins and living their lives.