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Patricia Engel
Patricia Engel is the author of Vida and It's Not Love, It's Just Paris. Her acclaimed debut, Vida, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and Paterson Fiction Award, winner of the... show more

Patricia Engel is the author of Vida and It's Not Love, It's Just Paris. Her acclaimed debut, Vida, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and Paterson Fiction Award, winner of the International Latino Book Award, Florida Book Award, and Independent Publisher Book Award, and longlisted for The Story Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Additionally, Vida was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a New York Times Editors' Choice, and named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Barnes & Noble, Latina Magazine, and Los Angeles Weekly.Patricia's fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, A Public Space, Boston Review, Guernica, and Harvard Review, among other publications, and received awards including the Boston Review Fiction Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Key West Literary Seminar, Norman Mailer Writer's Colony, Hedgebrook, Ucross, and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs, as well as a 2014 fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment of the Arts.
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My Never Ending List
My Never Ending List rated it 3 years ago
What the heck!? You can’t be serious? I cringed a few times as I read this book, for the main characters were walking blindly. They lived in fear, they were risking their own lives and the lives of their own children as they dodged not being caught and deported. Sometimes I wondered if they even ...
missbrie
missbrie rated it 10 years ago
I can't really rate this book because I know that the thing that made the book less enjoyable to me was not a flaw. I very strongly believe that readers don't always have to approve of the way the character acts. They don't always have to like the characters. What matters is that the reader is in...
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