Patricia Engel

"Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this...

The author's first novel is a story about an American girl in Paris, who navigates the intoxicating and treacherous complexities of independence, friendship, and romance. Lita del Cielo, the daughter of two Colombian orphans who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire, has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before she must return to work in the family business. She moves into a gently crumbling...

"La joven Lita ha viajado a Paris con la excusa de aprender bien el idioma, aunque lo que de verdad desea es vivir una apasionada historia de amor. Pero, mientras pasea por las hermosas calles de la capital francesa, ni siquiera sospecha que este sentimiento puede ser tan intenso, tan poderoso, como el que la invadirá cuando conozca a Cato, un joven aparentemente inalcanzable, desarraigado y con una infancia triste a su espalda."--cubierta de libro....