A review by terryliz
Magical Realism for Non-Believers: A Memoir of Finding Family by Anika Fajardo

4.0

Anika Fajardo was born in Colombia to a Colombian father and an American mother. Her parents divorced when she was too young to remember her father and her mother raised her in Minnesota. As a young adult, Anika decides to travel to Colombia to meet the father she's never really known. Her memoir is a thoughtful and honest account of what it feels like to grow up as the child of a single parent, to grow up mixed raced, and to grow up as an only child longing for a sibling...or is she an only child? I found the mixed-feelings she explores about her father and her Colombian heritage and a surprise family member an absorbing story and look forward to more by this author. Thank you NetGalley for providing the ARC edition of this ebook.