A Second Chance on Earth

by Juan Vidal

A father’s book becomes a link between grief and family history

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A father’s book becomes a link between grief and family history

Told in verse, the novel follows sixteen-year-old Marcos Cadena as he reckons with his father’s death through a worn copy of *One Hundred Years of Solitude*. The book belonged to his father, and Marcos carries it to Cartagena, Colombia, his parents’ childhood home, when he travels there to spread his father’s ashes. The supplied description places grief alongside a teenager’s connections to literature, family, and place, with a friend also named as part of the support surrounding him.

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Teens and young adults interested in young adult fiction about grief and family.
Readers interested in verse novels and stories involving books and literary connections.
Readers seeking fiction with Hispanic and Latino subject matter and a Colombian setting.

Themes

Grief and lossFather-son connectionFamily historyLiterature and readingColombian roots and place

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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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