![]() ![]() He hopes the pictures he takes in Spain will earn him a college scholarship so he can break away from his family and follow his dream. ![]() Against his father’s wishes that he join the oil business, Daniel dreams of becoming a photojournalist. The son of a Texas oilman and a mother born in Spain, 18-year-old Daniel Matheson travels with his parents to Madrid in 1957, where his father seeks to close a business deal with the dictator and his mother is recovering from an unknown tragedy. As far-right religious leaders such as Robert Jeffress threaten a second Civil War in the United States and thousands of undocumented migrant children have been separated from their parents at the border and are now unaccounted for, The Fountains of Silence has gone beyond a meticulously researched, atmospheric YA novel to a must-read by teens and adults alike as we search the past for insights into our experiences today. ![]() The history in question involves more than 300,000 infants and children taken from poor and/or politically suspect families and sold abroad or to supporters of Generalíssimo (Supreme General) Francisco Franco immediately after the fascists’ victory in the Spanish Civil War and in the three decades that followed. Begun in 2012, Ruta Sepetys’s fourth YA novel, The Fountains of Silence, has emerged at a particularly fraught moment, one that has given this “hidden history” outsized significance. ![]()
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