Flores and Miss PaulaA Recommended Book From: The Washington Post * Today * Sunset Magazine * Country Living * Good Housekeeping A wry, tender work of Hispanic American fiction about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final chance to find common ground. Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment in this touching mother daughter novel, but that may be the only thing they have in common. Its been

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