Amelia
A confusing but interesting account of the life of a young woman -Catalina who finds herself stuck as an “illegal” immigrant. Brought to the US by her grand parents at 7, after the death of her parents in a car crash she finds that her reality is different from that of her rich white classmates in Harvard. This secret of hers is killing, and isolating her because she is unable to be vulnerable with friends and lovers. Her life is complicated in the way the life of children living astride 2 cultures often is. Some of her life decisions are self destructive and leave the reader wondering why. A short 3 star read.
A confusing but interesting account of the life of a young woman -Catalina who finds herself stuck as an “illegal” immigrant. Brought to the US by her grand parents at 7, after the death of her parents in a car crash she finds that her reality is different from that of her rich white classmates in Harvard. This secret of hers is killing, and isolating her because she is unable to be vulnerable with friends and lovers. Her life is complicated in the way the life of children living astride 2 cultures often is. Some of her life decisions are self destructive and leave the reader wondering why. A short 3 star read.