The Transplant eBook Alexandra Ulysses
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The Transplant offers an insightful account of two young people living in United States illegally. Witty and tragic, it portrays their endless and fruitless pursuit of legalization. Agata, a young Polish au-pair who arrives in the United States in the late 1990’s, strives to maintain her legal status through hard work but, due to a fateful event, finds herself unable to do so. Faced with dangerous circumstances and few if any options, she flees from her host family only to find herself living and working illegally. Eventually she meets Mario. His single minded devotion to his ailing mother led him to risk his life and cross the border so that he could earn enough money to pay for the kidney transplant that would save her life. With the birth of their daughter Adriana and the need to ensure that their family stay intact, Agata and Mario become painfully aware of the need for legalization and attempt to gain legal status by any means.
The Transplant eBook Alexandra Ulysses
I received a free early reviewers hard copy of The Transplant from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and at times couldn’t put it down. The ending was so sad and tragic; it really made me aware of some of the terrible things that another person will do for wealth and the almighty buck. This book presents a different view of illegal immigrants in the US that I wasn’t completely aware of. The majority are very hardworking, good, people. Of course there are some scoundrels just like in all of society. They live with a constant fear that they will be caught before there is immigration reform and most seem to be willing to pay whatever penalties necessary in order to get US citizenship legally if and when it comes to fruition. Some come here with visas and a host individual or family but due to unforeseen events or circumstances beyond their control are unable to become citizens. There are circumstances where they have been taken advantage of but there are also circumstances where they have taken advantage and married a US citizen in order to become legal and then divorced them later when they obtained their citizenship. Some were only marriages on paper and the illegal paid the individual so they would marry them. Some of these arranged marriages were to enlisted men and women who were serving in foreign countries. The events on 9/11 played a big part in many visas being cancelled and many immigrants who were very close to becoming citizens suddenly became illegal aliens. We need immigration reform in this our country! It seems like we as American citizens living in the melting pot of the world have turned our backs on immigrants and no longer seem to welcome them nor seem to want to help them become citizens.I noticed a few places in Book I where portions of the text were crossed out. I am wondering if these are areas that were missed during editing of the book. A suggestion to the author is that it would be very helpful to the reader if there was a glossary in the back of the book with the English translation for the words in Polish, Spanish, Czech, etc. used throughout the book. Again, I did enjoy this book and as a whole it was very well written.
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The Transplant eBook Alexandra Ulysses Reviews
I was lucky enough to win a copy of this book from a Goodreads giveaway. It's not a book I would have generally picked for myself because I think the description doesn't really do it enough justice so I'm really glad that I won it and gave it a shot. It was well worth it!
I can't give away any part of the story at all because you need to get in there and find out for yourself what you think of the book, so I'll give what I can. This book will grab your attention from the very beginning and you will find it very hard to put it down. There are a few stories going on at once but as you are reading the author magnificently blends the stories together so that all of a sudden you realize that all the stories are now one. It's very well written and the stories flow smoothly for the most part. You get attached to many of the character and find yourself laughing, crying, and screaming right along with them!
I did struggle just a bit with the rating on this one though. There are parts in the book where the story is so rushed you just lose track of time and have to take a step back to try to figure out how much has passed because it jumps so far ahead so quickly. The story reads so smoothly and perfectly for well over half the book, then it just starts skipping through time and leaving out so much that could have been and should have been important to the book. I suppose when you are hitting 500 pages or so that can be an issue though, or perhaps I was just too involved with the characters. The other thing was that I really, really, really did not like the ending at all! I am just going to have to erase it from my mind forever and create a new one.
However, since not liking an ending is really not a rating dropping thing just a personal thing (read the book you guys, you will understand this and I can't elaborate to add humor or anything else to my rant here!!) the writing style, characters, storyline, plot, etc. more than deserve the 5 star rating. It would have been nice to have the extra time for the characters in the last quarter of the book, but it was still very good!
I received a free early reviewers hard copy of The Transplant from LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and at times couldn’t put it down. The ending was so sad and tragic; it really made me aware of some of the terrible things that another person will do for wealth and the almighty buck. This book presents a different view of illegal immigrants in the US that I wasn’t completely aware of. The majority are very hardworking, good, people. Of course there are some scoundrels just like in all of society. They live with a constant fear that they will be caught before there is immigration reform and most seem to be willing to pay whatever penalties necessary in order to get US citizenship legally if and when it comes to fruition. Some come here with visas and a host individual or family but due to unforeseen events or circumstances beyond their control are unable to become citizens. There are circumstances where they have been taken advantage of but there are also circumstances where they have taken advantage and married a US citizen in order to become legal and then divorced them later when they obtained their citizenship. Some were only marriages on paper and the illegal paid the individual so they would marry them. Some of these arranged marriages were to enlisted men and women who were serving in foreign countries. The events on 9/11 played a big part in many visas being cancelled and many immigrants who were very close to becoming citizens suddenly became illegal aliens. We need immigration reform in this our country! It seems like we as American citizens living in the melting pot of the world have turned our backs on immigrants and no longer seem to welcome them nor seem to want to help them become citizens.
I noticed a few places in Book I where portions of the text were crossed out. I am wondering if these are areas that were missed during editing of the book. A suggestion to the author is that it would be very helpful to the reader if there was a glossary in the back of the book with the English translation for the words in Polish, Spanish, Czech, etc. used throughout the book. Again, I did enjoy this book and as a whole it was very well written.
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