"María Paz es una joven latina que, como tantas otras, ha llegado a Estados Unidos persiguiendo la utopía. Pero el sueño americano se convierte en pesadilla cuando es acusada del asesinato de su marido, un policía blanco, y condenada a prisión. Sin embargo, la vida de María Paz dará un giro vertiginoso cuando descubra que el verdadero horror, el que pondrá a prueba todo su temple, está esperándola fuera de las rejas. Laura Restrepo nos atrapa...

The story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans. In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather's...

2007. Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son.Working as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, he displays the punctuality, discretion, and loyalty that Edwards demands. Neni temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons means a brighter future-- until Jende and Neni notice cracks...