Young Llama Thoughts
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Adventurous
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Christian Friendly
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Easy Reading
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Humerous
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Youth Appropriate
Overall
Review
This book is an inspirational read about family and finding home!!! It is totally fascinating and such a well written story about immigrant families!!!
This book is about Melanie Carvajal, a journalist with a struggling career and a pretty much dead social life. So when she gets a chance to write about Colombia, her home that she has never seen, she takes the next flight to write the article on the drugs and crime rise of the country. But then Melanie sees the love and joy of the country and realizes everyone has got it wrong. But she isn’t certain she can rise up like her mother did so many years ago and make a change…
This book is amazing! Talk about an inspiring read?!?! I really enjoyed reading about the culture and people in beautiful Colombia. The novel is totally fabulous and such a great read for young ladies 14 and up! There are some hard topics mentioned. It’s brought up how people judge Colombia because of the drugs and crime. And how the people suffer because of it. My biggest complaint is that there isn’t any romance!!! I love a good love story. But this story isn’t about people falling in love; it’s about a girl falling in love with her country. (But I really wish there was more than 3 chapters of a hint of romance…)
Overall, this is a book I totally suggest!!! It is full of love for the Colombian people and their beautiful country! It is a very clean read, with very real life stories written in it. An American Immigrant is a novel about home. -The Young Llama Reader.
Pros
- An amazing story about finding home!
- Inspiring and heart-warming!!!
- Fantastic for girls 14 and up!
Cons
- No romance…
Twenty-five-year-old Melanie Carvajal, a hardworking but struggling journalist for a Miami newspaper, loves her Colombian mother but regularly ignores her phone calls, frustrated that she never quite takes the time to understand Melanie’s life. When the opportunity arises for a big assignment that might save her flagging career, Melanie follows the story to the land of her mother’s birth. She soon realizes Colombia has the potential to connect her, after all these years, to something she’s long ignored: her heritage, the love of her mother, her family, and the richest parts of herself.
Colombia offers more than a chance to make a name for herself as a writer. It is a place of untold stories.
Inspired by real-life events, An American Immigrant is a story of culture and community, of abiding commitment to family, and of embracing our culture and the generations that have come before.
