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This "tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is sending money home from Texas where she's trying to make a better life for her family, but she only has enough to bring one son to her. When Carla's grandmother dies, Carla decides…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2015Ballantine Books · 274 pages · 9780553390506
- Other · English · 2015Ballantine Books · 289 pages · 9781101883761
Emigration and immigrationFamiliesFictionFICTION / Contemporary WomenFICTION / LiteraryFICTION / SagasFiction, family lifeHonduras, fiction






