A Second Chance on Earth
Juan Vidal
Sixteen-year-old poet and basketball player Marcos Cadena grieves after his father dies in an accident. His family travels with his father’s ashes to Cartagena, where Marcos finds friendship, encounters Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and develops a connection to his Colombian heritage. A father, a friend, and a beloved book shape his effort to understand love and loss. The story is told in free verse.
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