Release Date 1/21/2020
About the book:
Lydia Quixano Perez lives in Mexico city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they’ll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy — two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia’s husband’s tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same.
My review:
This book was amazing and a huge eye opener, as to how migrants suffered in their own cities, and homes. How they fled thier homes due to violence, for their own safety. This book was terrifying and absolutely wonderful at the same time. We had the cartels and narcos who were just brutual.
This story is also about a massacre that made Lydia and her son run for their lives. To leave everything that they have ever known behind them. Leaving Mexico in search for a new life in the United States, the problem is, how are they going to get to the United States without being caught or deported back by boarder patrol. A mothers love, what she sacrifices, as she shields her son from harm. A wonderful and very extraordinary read. I have a feeling this book will become a classic. As it speaks of our day and age times, of immigrants, and what they have to endure to try to become free.
I gave this book 5/5 star review. #readingwithcasey #booklifewithcasey #readingaddict #loveagreatbook #advancereadercopy #americandirt #bookworm
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