"Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz--a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile--for her advice"-- Provided by publisher.
year: 2017
call number/section: 1000
subjects: teachers, fiction, women college teachers, women illegal aliens, human rights, fiction / literary, fiction / historical, fiction / general, new york (n.y.), fiction, guatemala, chile, romance fiction