TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rivero,Melissa
TI  - The affairs of the Falcóns: a novel 
SN  - 9780062872357
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Illegal aliens
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Peruvians
KW  - United States
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly curtailed the family's opportunities: Ana is indebted to a loan shark who calls herself Mama, and is stretched thin by unceasing shifts at her factory job. To make matters worse, Ana must also battle both criticism from Lucho's cousin--who has made it obvious the family is not welcome to stay in her spare room for much longer--and escalating and unwanted attention from Mama's husband
ER  -