![]() ![]() But the family is separated when Mauro is deported for driving without a license. Her parents, Elena and Mauro, fell in love as teenagers and had a child before fleeing from the violence, poverty, and uncertainty of Bogotá and moving to Houston, where “their ears took in English, English, all the time English, and if they heard Spanish, it was with no accent like their own.” After overstaying their visas, they have two more kids including Talia, the youngest, and move to various cities. ![]() Talia breaks out of a reformatory for girls in Colombia with a single purpose: to reunite with her family in the U.S. Engel ( The Veins of the Ocean) delivers an outstanding novel of migration and the Colombian diaspora. ![]()
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