He knows most people won’t bother him because he’s proved in the past he can handle himself. Both of them are from Mexican families and that identify forms a large part of the book and their interactions with each other and also their families.Īri is in quite a dark place – he’s quick to anger and quick with his fists too. Ari is fascinated by the differences in his own father and in Dante’s.
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Ari really doesn’t know how to connect with his father and he doesn’t know how to ask about his older brother, who is in prison.Īri meets Dante at the local pool – Dante can swim and he takes it upon him to quite seriously teach Ari and the two become quite inseparable over the summer. He has wounds no one can see and fights battles no one else can take part in. Ari was born over a decade after his three siblings, after his father came back from the Vietnam War and as everyone who knew him before will say, his father is different now. He’s a bit of a loner, not a lot of friends, which worries his mother, who is a teacher. And I didn’t want to read the second one without having read this one, so I requested it from my local library and it came in with perfect timing.Īri is 15 and it’s 1987 and the summer holidays. It’s to be published next month, quite a big gap between books and even though I’ve been aware of this book for a long time (probably since it was published), I’d never gotten around to reading it.
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I received the second book in this series for review. But there are big hurdles in their way, and only by believing in each other―and the power of their friendship―can Ari and Dante emerge stronger on the other side.
It seems that a boy like Dante, with his open and unique perspective on life, would be the last person to break down the walls that Ari has built around himself.īut against all odds, when Ari and Dante meet, they develop a special bond that will teach them the most important truths of their lives, and help define the people they want to be. Ari gets lost in thoughts of his older brother who is in prison. Ari has a hard time with words and suffers from self-doubt. Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe (Aristotle & Dante #1)īlurb : Dante can swim.
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