A review by bookreviewswithkb
The Things We Didn't Know by Elba Iris Pérez

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.5

this is a really moving coming of age story about a sister and brother shuffled between a small Massachusetts town and Puerto Rico, stuck in the crosshairs of their mother and father who are both trying to make a way for their children, trying to find their way through unbearable and oppressive circumstances, trying to figure out how to create the lives for their children that they have always dreamed of for themselves. but they are so limited by the choices they can make, by the pull of home and the pull of making a new home, by the fears of horrible things happening as evidenced by their own experiences, by the desire to be free

another book @makealongstorycount convinced me i needed to read and she was not wrong!
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