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Surviving Santiago

by Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Ages: 14+

Published: 2015

Publisher: Running Press Teens/Running Press

ISBN: 978-0-7624-5633-8

Keywords: Dictatorships, Diversity, Torture, Chile

Chilean-American teenager Tina returns to Santiago for the summer of 1989 to reconnect with her alcoholic activist father during the final months of Pinochet's regime.