Vida
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by Patricia Engel
17. Vida moves back and forth from New Jersey to Manhattan to Miami, and then, finally, to Colombia, in “Madre Patria.” What is Sabina’s connection to Colombia? How does it differ from that of her parents’?
Suggestions for further reading:
Drown by Junot Díaz; Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño; War by Candlelight by Daniel Alarcón; How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic; The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon; Esther Stories by Peter Orner; The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros; Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis; War Dances by Sherman Alexie; Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun; Sightseeing by Rattawut Lapcharoensap; The Boat by Nam Le; Paraiso Travel by Jorge Franco