· Melissa Rivero’s debut novel, The Affairs of the Falcóns, is a rich, multilayered narrative about the struggles of a young Peruvian family attempting to make a life in America. Title: The Affairs of the Falcóns. Author: Melissa Rivero. Genre: Fiction. Publisher: Ecco.4/5. Melissa Rivero’s The Affairs of the Falcóns does poetic justice to this riveting tale of identity, belonging, and transformation.”-- Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban and Here in Berlin “The Affairs of the Falcóns is a powerfully honest testament to the strength of immigrant mothers. May we all see them, honor them, and fight for them in the way Melissa Rivero sees, honors, and fights for Ana /5(67). The Affairs of the Falcóns is a beautiful, deeply urgent novel about the lengths one woman is willing to go to build a new life, and a vivid rendering of the American immigrant experience. Membership Advantages.
The Affairs of the Falcóns is a beautiful, deeply urgent novel about the lengths one woman is willing to go to build a new life and a vivid rendering of the American immigrant experience. © Melissa Rivero (P) HarperCollins Publishers. The Affairs of the Falcóns is a beautiful, deeply urgent novel about the lengths one woman is willing to go to build a new life, and a vivid rendering of the American immigrant experience. Melissa Rivero's debut novel, The Affairs of the Falcóns, is a rich, multilayered narrative about the struggles of a young Peruvian family attempting to. Melissa Rivero. Melissa Rivero was born in Lima, Peru, and raised in Brooklyn. Undocumented for most of her childhood, Rivero became a US citizen in her early twenties. Her writing has taken her to the VONA/Voices Workshops, Bread Loaf, and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. In , Melissa was an Emerging Writers Fellow at the Center for Fiction.
The Affairs of the Falcóns is the debut novel by Melissa Rivero, published April 2nd, by Ecco. I picked this one up from my local library for mainly two reasons: 1) my ever-growing desire to learn about other cultures, and 2) the HYPE!. A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York bltadwin.ru Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the s. Melissa Rivero’s The Affairs of the Falcóns does poetic justice to this riveting tale of identity, belonging, and transformation.”-- Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban and Here in Berlin “The Affairs of the Falcóns is a powerfully honest testament to the strength of immigrant mothers. May we all see them, honor them, and fight for them in the way Melissa Rivero sees, honors, and fights for Ana Rios, free of judgement and full of love.”.
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