A review by ndgrad98
The Book of Unknown Americans, by Cristina Henriquez
5.0
Fabulous book. The author paints a multicolor picture of a group of Latin American immigrants who live in the same apartment building in Delaware. She depicts the everyday struggles they deal with coming to a new country and personifies the nameless, faceless “unknown Americans”; she forces us to see them as human beings who are just like us “natives”.
I live blocks from apartments that house people just like these characters. And Latin food markets. And Western Union stations. I see the women waiting for the school bus to drop off their kids. I see the men waiting at the bus stop on the corner across from my neighborhood to go to their jobs. This book has opened my eyes a bit more and I know I’ll think about these folks differently the next time I drive through.
I live blocks from apartments that house people just like these characters. And Latin food markets. And Western Union stations. I see the women waiting for the school bus to drop off their kids. I see the men waiting at the bus stop on the corner across from my neighborhood to go to their jobs. This book has opened my eyes a bit more and I know I’ll think about these folks differently the next time I drive through.