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This book started out very slow for me. I’m not a fan of football and I found Bucky’s family to be incredibly unlikeable. I was hoping things would get better. Unfortunately, for me, not so much. I just could not connect with Bucky. I felt really sorry for his circumstances but it was difficult to get past the football references, the teenage hormones, the rage and the bad decisions. I almost stopped reading in the last section because it was just so odd, and, my gosh, there isn’t one appealing character in the entire book.

I don’t usually give gender labels to books but there is such a thing as Women’s fiction so I suppose this book would qualify as Men’s fiction so perhaps I’m judging unfairly. I would actually be interested to hear from a man that had read it. I give the book 2 stars for two reasons: I actually liked the ending, and the book also opened my eyes to how immigrants who have been deported may be treated. Some cash and see you later feels like a very broken system.