Where we come from

Resource Information

The work Where we come from represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chelmsford Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Where we come from

Statement of responsibility

by Oscar Cásares

Creator

• Cásares, Oscar, 1964-

Author

• Cásares, Oscar, 1964-

Subject

• Human smuggling -- Fiction
• Large type books
• Mexican Americans -- Fiction
• Brownsville (Tex.) -- Fiction
• Families -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

Member of

• Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3603.A83

LC item number

W47 2019

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice

Target audience

adult