A review by tjalexandernyc
The Things We Didn't Know by Elba Iris Pérez

A really gripping debut that follows a Puerto Rican girl from her childhood into adulthood. Sweeping is a good word, it's a sweeping kind of story, spanning 1950s PR and Massachusetts all the way up to the 1990s. The bulk of the story, though, takes place in Andreas's youth and deals with family dynamics, divorce, abandonment, racism and colorism--a lot packed into this one!