A Second Chance on Earth

by Juan Vidal

A father’s book becomes a link between loss and home

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A father’s book becomes a link between loss and home

After his father’s death, sixteen-year-old Marcos finds a worn copy of *One Hundred Years of Solitude* among his belongings. He carries it to Cartagena, Colombia, his parents’ childhood home, as he travels there to spread his father’s ashes. The novel-in-verse brings together grief, family memory, friendship, and the role a book can play in helping someone make sense of love and loss. Its Colombian setting and Marcos’s connection to his father’s reading give the story a specific route into those themes.

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Teens and young adults interested in stories about grief and family relationships.
Readers who enjoy novels in verse.
Readers interested in Colombian settings and Hispanic and Latino young adult fiction.

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Grief and lossFather-son relationshipsFriendshipBooks and family memoryColombian roots and home

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Book overview

A father, a friend, and a favorite book help a teen boy understand love and loss in this moving and vivid YA novel in verse.

Have you ever encountered a book that KO'd you, Iron Mike Tyson style? One that hit you square in the face and heart like some abracadabra casting a hex from an unknown planet?

For sixteen-year-old poet and b-baller Marcos Cadena, that book is the beat-up copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude he finds among his late father's possessions after Papi is killed in an accident.

Marcos' papi has always loomed large in his eyes. So, when Marcos travels to his parents' childhood home of Cartagena, Colombia to spread Papi's ashes, he brings his father's book with him, convinced that Gabriel Garc

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