With nowhere else to go, Manu ends up following her neighbor’s boyfriend into the Florida everglades where she finds a settlement of other Argentines only these people are different, and some of them have her starry eyes. Before Manu can unravel more of her family secrets, ICE invades the clinic, and her mother tells Manu to run. But when Manu runs to join her mother, she learns that her mother works in an underground clinic and that she never intended to file for asylum for either of them. And Manu’s world crumbles when her adopted grandmother Perlas attacked, and she tells Manu to run. All her life, Manu’s mother told her that they live in hiding because of her father’s powerful family. Manu’s a sheltered undocumented teen who never had friends or attended school but she finds a way to live out her adventures through books and by spying on her neighbor across the street who she calls other Manu. Lobizona a young adult fantasy novel by Romina Garber promises a story about a young Argentine discovering the truth of her heritage, but this novel is way more than that! Nothing in the blurb of Lobizona prepares readers for the rich and imaginative world that they’ll step into.
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