Shortly after the birth of their first child, Karina, Mauro suggests to Elena that they go to the United States to earn some money to support their growing family and Perla's laundry business. They fall in love, and eventually Mauro moves in with Elena and her mother, Perla. As a teenager, Mauro gets a job in a marketplace. These stories stay with Mauro all of his life. Tiberio tells Mauro stories from the mythology of the Muisca people, who lived in Colombia before it was colonized. He goes to live with his aunt and her companion, Tiberio. Mauro's own mother kicks him out of the house when he is a child. to live with her mother, Elena, and her siblings, Karina and Nando. Mauro waits in Bogotá, worried about his daughter and what will happen when he sends her to the U.S. After her escape, Talia asks a trucker at a gas station for a ride and they begin to head south. Talia must get to Bogotá where her father, Mauro, lives because he has a plane ticket that will take her to the United States to be reunited with the rest of her family. She was remanded to this institution because she threw hot oil in the face of a man who killed a stray cat. The novel begins with 15-year-old Talia breaking out of a reformatory for girls located in the mountains of Santander in Colombia. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Engel, Patricia.
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