The Affairs of the Falcons is the debut novel by Peruvian author Melissa Rivero. In the novel, Ana and her family have just fled Peru for a better life in New York; being young and undocumented they have little chance for decent work and become reliant on loan sharks and less than gracious cousins. Ana goes to extraordinary lengths to try to stay in NY and keep her family together. Her husband is ready to send their kids back to Peru or for all of them to return.

A timely book that points to the struggles of immigrants in America today. Although I think it is a well written and important book, I wasn’t as drawn in as I hoped to be. I just didn’t like the characters and the choices they made, so in the end I didn’t care as much as I wanted to. A somewhat forgettable book in the heaps of current literature about immigrants.