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Where We Come From

A novel

by Oscar Cásares
Yareli Arizmendi
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A stunning and timely novel about a Mexican-American family in Brownsville, Texas, that reluctantly becomes involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States.
From a distance, the towns along the U.S.-Mexican border have dangerous reputations—on one side, drug cartels; on the other, zealous border patrol agents—and Brownsville is no different. But to twelve-year-old Orly, it's simply where his godmother Nina lives—and where he is being forced to stay the summer after his mother's sudden death.
For Nina, Brownsville is where she grew up, where she lost her first and only love, and where she stayed as her relatives moved away and her neighborhood deteriorated. It's the place where she has buried all her secrets—and now she has another: she's providing refuge for a young immigrant boy named Daniel, for whom traveling to America has meant trading one set of dangers for another. 
Separated from the violent human traffickers who brought him across the border and pursued by the authorities, Daniel must stay completely hidden. But Orly's arrival threatens to put them all at risk of exposure.
Tackling the crisis of U.S. immigration policy from a deeply human angle, Where We Come From explores through an intimate lens the ways that family history shapes us, how secrets can burden us, and how finding compassion and understanding for others can ultimately set us free.

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  • Release date

    May 21, 2019

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781984891983
      • File size: 230687 KB
      • Duration: 08:00:35

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Yareli Arizmendi is the sassy voice of Nina, a single woman living in a border town in Texas. Arizmendi sets a quick pace and a smooth cadence for a story about family, belonging, and government encroachment. She provides authentic pronunciations of the Spanish words that are liberally sprinkled throughout the chapters. Orly, Nina's tween godson, comes to spend the summer in her rural town after his mother unexpectedly dies in Houston. Nina is also sheltering Daniel, a teenager who came across the border illegally and is hiding from cops and gang members. Their lives are the window through which we are given an intimate look at the consequences of migrant trafficking along the southern border of the U.S. M.R. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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