One night Sopie's stepdad gets a call. A little 6 year old boy had been found in the desert, after his family tried to cross the Mexican-American border. The crossing did not went well and the family died because dehydration and the harsh desert. They visit the little boy (whose name is Pablo) in the hospital and they take him into the family. The family exists of Sophie, her mom, Juan (her mom's new husband) and Dika, Sophie's aunt who survived the war in Bosnia.Dika gets a new boyfriend, Mr. Lorenzo, and Sophie becomes friends with his son Angel.
They tried to locate family of Pablo, and they find them. They make a plan to go to Mexico to Pablo's village. Angels has a mysterious box he carries with him, and it keeps things of his passed away mother. Angel and Mr. Lorenzo are from Guatemala, and when Sophie and Dika stays in Mexico with Pablo's family, Angel and Mr. Lorenzo travel to Guatemala to find some things out about his mother. Sophie finds a new way of living and learns more about herself, and she has to make tough choices when she has to travel to Guatemala alone when she finds out Angel has been attacked and his in the hospital..but will she arrive there savely?
Red Glass is an outstanding and amazing Ya novel 'between cultures'' by Laura Resau.
There aren't many books that get to you so much as a reader, because the characters and situations are so amazing realistic. It is also a story of a girl who is plagued by anxiety, and learns more about herself and becomes a though girl during her time in Mexico and Guatemala, where she gets unexpected help from strangers who are the most welcoming people she meets. The author really knows what she writes about as she has lived in Mexico, and the reader learns in a fun way more about the culture.Red Glass takes you on a adventurous travel with the characters crisscross through Central America and it is a book you want to read over again many times!
