Welcome to America

by Linda Bostroem Knausgard

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Welcome to America follows an 11-year-old girl whose father has recently died. She feels responsible for his death and because of this has decided not to talk anymore. On top of her not talking anymore, her older brother has locked himself away in his room by nailing the door shut, and her mom is a broadway star just trying to keep the family together.

This family is dysfunctional but they weren't always this way. In the beginning they were a family who had hope, light, and promise but somewhere along the way things went wrong. While we do seem to partially find out why things went wrong we also never see it get resolved sadly. This is a book that has dark overtones while also being full of possibilities of what could happen if they can start communicating and working together as a family again. Maybe this family will have hope, light, and promise again.

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