Adult Book Group Reads We Never Asked For Wings for March 1st or 3rd
Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s We Never Asked for Wings is the chosen title for All Booked Up’s discussion on Wednesday, March 1st at 6:30PM or Friday, March 3rd at 1:00PM. Copies of the book are available in the upper level “New” room.
About the Book
For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San
Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children—Alex,
fifteen, and Luna, just six—in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit
of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty’s parents are returning to
Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in
her life.
Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses her grandparents and Alex, who is falling in love with a classmate, is unwilling to give his mother a chance. Letty comes up with a plan to help the family escape the dangerous neighborhood and heartbreaking injustice that have marked their lives, but one wrong move could jeopardize everything she’s worked for and her family’s fragile hopes for the future.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh blends gorgeous prose with compelling themes of motherhood, undocumented immigration, and the American Dream in a powerful and prescient story about family.
Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses her grandparents and Alex, who is falling in love with a classmate, is unwilling to give his mother a chance. Letty comes up with a plan to help the family escape the dangerous neighborhood and heartbreaking injustice that have marked their lives, but one wrong move could jeopardize everything she’s worked for and her family’s fragile hopes for the future.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh blends gorgeous prose with compelling themes of motherhood, undocumented immigration, and the American Dream in a powerful and prescient story about family.
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