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• Eleven-year-old Juana lives with her Amá and Apá in their small shack on the outskirts of their village in Mexico. • On the night of a flood, which enters their shack, her mom leaves Juana on top of the table possessing the baby, Anita, to go try to find her partner.
• Juana falls asleep and loses hold of the baby, which usually drowns. Right now in debt once again to the richest man in the village, Wear Elías, who have paid for the funeral, Apá decides to risk everything and go to America to earn the cash to pay off Put on Elías.
• The moment no word comes from Apá – Miguel Garcia – the other villagers taunt Juana and her mother, Lupe, with the hideous word: left behind. But there is still Put on Elías to repay, and will be certainly only one issue he’s asking for and one thing Lupe can give: her physique.
• As her mother declines further more into remorse, depression, insanity and alcoholic beverages, Juana by no means gives up hope that her father is merely across the mountains, that this individual hasn’t forgotten or abandoned them.
Her dedication to find him sees her travel to South america City, where she fulfills Adelina, whom helps her find the coyote that helped her father get across the boundary Characters
• Juana: A 12 years old girl with black hair, she was thin, incredibly innocent, poor, aggressive and honest. The lady had a hard life and always felt doing the death of her little sis. Her purpose was to discover her father in “El otro Lado”. She is the key character of this book and she will live the hardest times during the her lifestyle trying to find her missing daddy.
• Adelina: A more significantly less 17 years old girl, the lady works as a prostitute, she hails from Mexico. The girl run away via his house because the lady fall In appreciate of her boyfriend, and he was one who expose her in the prostitution organization, she is a genial, good, honest and poor person.
• Miguel Garcia (Apa): He was a campesino and he worked inside the fields planting and harvesting crops. This individual felt doing his tiny daughter lifeless. He wishes a better existence for his family therefore he decided to go to “El otro Lado”, and he died attempting it.
• Lupe (Ama): A religious woman who follows the Philippine traditions and prays a great deal to the Virginal de Guadalupe, she has an extended hair, adores her family members, she was with a large amount of grudge with Juana due to Anita’s deceased. Later the girl became a great indigent woman, alcoholic and with mental
• Wear Elias: A fat pig man who is the richest gentleman in the city, everybody is afraid of him, he is the one that pay for Anita’s funeral, plus the Garcia relatives owns him money. Is actually a repugnant man with no principles, he don’t care of nobody, he just care of him self and he can do the required to get what he desires.
• Don Ernesto: A great man who helped Adelina (Juana), when she comes to Los Angeles city, afterwards he started to be like some sort of father figure to Adelina (Juana). He supplies the shelter as a temporary house, but the lady breaks her final assure to him when she denies providing an chance to be joyful with Sebastian.
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