Islandborn
by Junot Día
A girl tries to remember the island she left as a baby.
your child was born somewhere else but carries a homeland in their family's stories
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Lola left her Caribbean island when she was a baby and doesn't remember it. Her teacher asks the class to draw their home countries. Lola asks everyone she knows — neighbors, family, strangers — to describe the island to her. What she collects is a mosaic of memory, love, and the Monster that made so many people leave. Díaz wrote this picture book after Hurricane Maria as a dispatch from inside the diaspora's relationship with a home that exists more in story than in memory. The most tender thing on the Puerto Rico shelf and the most essential for the youngest readers.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Puerto Rico • Caribbean
- Voice
- Written by a Puerto Rican author
