The Book of Unknown Americans | Cristina Henriquez

This book is really about community. A community of immigrants from a range of Latin American countries who all land in the same apartment building in Delaware. All arrived through legal channels and are employed, but all still have precarious lives. What I loved about this book is that it shows how these people are just men, women, families like anyone else. In these divisive times, it's sometimes hard to remember that we're talking about flesh and blood people, not "immigrants," mothers and fathers and daughters and sons just trying to keep their lives together and make them better. There's joy and sadness, love and loss. It's a lovely book and couldn't be more timely.