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Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
4.25
adventurous funny informative reflective tense fast-paced

Villavicencio's voice is tremendous. It was on display in a more journalistic fashion with her previous non-fiction work, The Undocumented Americans, but it's a joy to see that voice spring out in this fictional tale about an undocumented woman dealing with life in the U.S. at Harvard. I was captivated by this novel, and delighted in the writing so much that most of the book flew by. However, there was something about the end that felt abrupt and inconsistent with the rest of the book. I wonder, of course, if that was the point...