![]() ![]() ![]() As such, they live in constant fear of ICE and raids.īut Manu isn’t just some undocumented kid from Argentina. In addition to being on the run from her father’s dangerous family, Manu and her mother are in the United States illegally. As she has distinctive eyes, she wears sunglasses any time she exits her home to help make herself invisible from those who would do her harm. She’s been told that her father’s family are not good people, and they are looking for her. ![]() She’s lived in Miami for most of her life with her mother. Manu is an undocumented teen from Argentina. But the world Garber created, the way she blends Argentinian folklore with the realities of the undocumented in the US, breathes a new life and has new layers – it just hits differently. There’s a comforting familiarity to Romina Garber’s Lobizona (Wednesday Books, 2020) – there is an elite school for magical beings and a sporting event, and these magical beings walk the world unbeknownst to but a few humans. ![]()
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