![]() ![]() One thing that was small but bothered me greatly is that Alvarez did not name a country, just stated that it was somewhere in Latin America. All of this is fairly fitting with the story so far, but here it also diverges into looking at stories of the revolution there and the troubles that people went through in Milly's native country. Assorted friendships at Milly's school are also addressed, feeling quite a bit like a typical coming-of-age story for middle grade/young adult literature.Then the book veers into Milly's trip to visit the country of her birth and her quest for more information about her biological parents. In the beginning, it explored the many relationships within one family, with each character having their own quirk - from Milly's mother who is occasionally a bit of a prude as a result of her Mormon upbringing to Milly's Jewish grandmother who uses her wealth as leverage while secretly still being haunted by stories of the Holocaust to Milly's over-eager younger brother who just wants everyone to get along. Milly has always kept her adoption hidden from the other kids in her small Vermont town but when a new boy starting at her high school hails from the same Latin America country where she was born, she discovers that she is interested in learning more about her birth story.This book had a strong start but petered out somewhere in the middle. ![]()
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