María’s Choice (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)

The Barbarian Nurseries

a few days before this party she had spent twenty minutes in her neighborhood bookstore perusing the back cover, jacket flap material, and opening paragraphs of a book called María’s Choice, which related the journey of a Guatemalan woman forced to leave her children behind for years while she worked in California: How terrible, Carla Wallace-Zuberi thought, how disconcerting to know that there are people like this living among us.