I loved the story. I actually had to read this in three days because I had already renewed it twice from the library and it was due on a Monday. This was my weekend task.
Growing up as a young girl with a mother who migrated from another country has always bothered Melanie. She felt embarrassed especially when she was made fun of in school for having lunches that smelled different nor did she like the older car they owned. Having to help with school paperwork because her mothers’ English was limited didn’t make her feel proud to be from Columbia. When she finds her mothers' journals and reads about her struggles, she begins to see her mother from a different perspective.
She has a ten-year plan for her life but it’s not going the way she planned. She is not realizing sometimes life is not so cut and dry. We have to see beyond ourselves and when she has to make a “work” trip to Columbia, her perspective changes.
The back cover states this story was “inspired by real-life events”.
