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The building of the Panama Canal, said to be the greatest engineering feat in history, is the backdrop of Cristina Henriquez's novel. Francisco, a fisherman angry at the foreign powers grabbing at Panama, is upset when his son Omar, raised in quiet loneliness, takes a job as a digger in the excavation zone. Ada Bunting, a bold sixteen-year-old from Barbados, arrives in Panama as a stowaway among thousands of West Indians seeking work, hoping to earn enough for her ailing sister's surgery. When Omar collapses after a grueling shift, she alone rushes to help. John Oswald, a scientist set on eliminating malaria, sees her courage and hires her to care for his sick wife, Marian.
It appeared on Jenna Bush Hager's Read With Jenna book club list on the Today Show.
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On Jenna Bush Hager’s Jenna Bush Hager Book Club list from the Today Show (Read With Jenna)
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