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The Book of Unknown Americans is a 2014 novel by Cristina Henríquez published by Knopf.The story is told from multiple first-person points of view, with the two main narrators being Alma Rivera, a roughly 30-year-old housewife from Pátzcuaro, Mexico, and Mayor Toro, a teenage social outcast and first-generation Hispanic and Latino American whose parents were originally from Panama.
The Book of Unknown Americans, Henríquez's second novel, was published in 2014 with Knopf. [16] The Daily Beast named it the 2014 novel of the year. [17]
The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Unknown Americans returns with a story chronicling one of the greatest feats of engineering in human history: the building of the Panama Canal ...
The "Ugly American" of the book title refers to the book's hero, plain-looking engineer Homer Atkins, whose "calloused and grease-blackened hands always reminded him that he was an ugly man." Atkins, who lives with the local people, comes to understand their needs, and offers genuinely useful assistance with small-scale projects such as the ...
The Book of Aron; The Book of Essie; The Book of Laughter and Forgetting; The Book of Lights; A Book of Prefaces; The Book of Unknown Americans; Born to Run (McDougall book) Boy Meets Boy (novel) The Boy Who Lost His Face; Brazil (novel) The Breaks of the Game; Breathing Lessons; The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama; Bridge of Clay ...
A former Colorado sheriff’s deputy was convicted of criminally negligent homicide Thursday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in distress who called 911 for help after his car got stuck ...
A ‘good ‘ol American boy’ and a woman everyone loved. Days after the murder, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune interviewed Greg’s co-workers at the South Florida Sod Farm.
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.