Does Henriquez believe in the American Dream?

It all started with a sentence: “We heard they were from Mexico.” The sentence randomly popped into Cristina Henriquez’s mind and for her, this sentence had questions that needed to be answered and even those answers had more questions. After five years of dissecting and expanding on these questions and answers, Henriquez’s junior novel “The Book of Unknown Americans” came to be.

d. because santiago thought any sharks would assume the marlin was part of the boat

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