Books by Patricia Engel
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review 1: I enjoyed reading this novel. The beginning of the novel was definitely interesting with the cast of characters in the boarding house, but it kind of dragged on a bit near the end. However, it didn't detract from my enjoyment of it. You had the feeling early on that that the rela...
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review 1: This book was just okay. I never got lost in the book, in fact it was quite easy to put down and do other things. While the characters seemed nice, they weren't all that interesting to me. Lita, the main character, was really trying to develop her own sense of self, yet she could...
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review 1: Highly recommended by Junot Diaz, Chris Abani and Francisco Goldman, all writers I admire, I dove into this collection of short stories held together by the thread that is Sabina's life as the daughter of Colombian immigrants. The depiction of the internal life of immigrants from...