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Published
Sep 3, 2024
Publisher
Holiday House
Subgenre
Contemporary
Section
Young Adult

A Second Chance on Earth

After his father is killed in an accident, sixteen-year-old poet and basketball player Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia, to scatter Papi's ashes, carrying his father's copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude, and befriends Camilo, an eighteen-year-old taxi driver whose troubling secret makes Marcos ask whether everyone deserves a second chance.