Vida

Every story is Sabina's. The daughter of Colombians who settled in the United States, she grows up a quiet, lonely girl in a New Jersey town that already sees her family as outsiders; after a relative's act of terrible violence, they are shunned and turn up on the nightly news, and the town's bad boy, hiding something himself, becomes her friend. Later she drifts with young people who chase love and then bolt from it, and, after fleeing to Miami, meets a Colombian woman whose past is tragic. Between New Jersey, New York, Miami and Bogotá, Sabina tries to belong both to the country where her family put down roots and to the one they left, which grows ever more distant.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

208 pages in the original

Genres

Migration, Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Colombia

First published

2010 by Black Cat

ISBN

9780802170781 (Black Cat, United States)