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The Things We Didn't Know, January 2025
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The Things We Didn't Know, February 2024
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The Things We Didn't Know, February 2024
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THE THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW
By: Elba Iris Pérez

1000 Words A Day Press
February 2024
On Sale: February 6, 2024
ISBN: B0C7RLM2XL
Kindle: B0C7RLM2XL
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Hardcover (February 2024), Hardcover (February 2024), Trade Paperback (reprint - January 2025)

Women's Fiction Historical

The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-cultural coming-of-age debut novel explores a young girl’s childhood between 1950s Puerto Rico and a small Massachusetts factory town.

Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they’ve known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in the mountainside villages of Puerto Rico and promises to return.

Months later, when Andrea and Pablo are brought back to Massachusetts, they find their hometown significantly changed. As they navigate the rifts between their family’s values and all-American culture and face the harsh realities of growing up, they must embrace both the triumphs and heartache that mark the journey to adulthood.

A heartfelt, evocative portrait of another side of life in 1950s America, The Things We Didn’t Know establishes Elba Iris Pérez as a sensational new literary voice.