The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham

The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

Lauren Markham

320 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir politics challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

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The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong.Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had a...

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Moods

challenging 62%
emotional 62%
informative 62%
tense 50%
hopeful 37%
reflective 37%
adventurous 25%
dark 12%
inspiring 12%
sad 12%

Pace

medium 75%
slow 25%

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4.12

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