Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

 

This was an interesting read, which I wanted to read as soon as I heard about it. Not sure why it did not captivate me the way I wanted it to.  

From GoodReads:

When Catalina is admitted to Harvard, it feels like the fulfillment of destiny: a miracle child escapes death in Latin America, moves to Queens to be raised by her undocumented grandparents, and becomes one of the chosen. But nothing is simple for Catalina, least of all her complicated, contradictory, ruthlessly probing mind. Now a senior, she faces graduation to a world with no place for the undocumented. Her sense of doom intensifies her curiosities and desires.