Arturo obtains a work visa, and he is able to get a job at a mushroom factory. Alma and Arturo hope that enrolling Maribel in Evers will help her recover from her severe brain damage. Their journey into the United States leads them to Newark, Delaware, a town with a school for the intellectually disabled known as Evers. Plot Īlma and Arturo Rivera leave their comfortable surroundings in Pátzcuaro, Mexico when their daughter Maribel suffers a severe head injury. The 304-page book was published on Jby Knopf. Henríquez originally conceived the novel as a short story told from Mayor's point of view. The story is told from multiple first-person points of view, with the two main narrators being Alma Rivera, a 30-something housewife from Pátzcuaro, Mexico, and Mayor Toro, a teenage social outcast and first-generation American whose parents were originally from Panama.ĭevelopment and publication history The Book of Unknown Americans is a 2014 novel by Cristina Henríquez published by Knopf.
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