Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco X. Stork

At his father’s insistence, seventeen-year-old Marcelo is leaving behind the familiar sheltered world of his special-ed school to spend the summer working in the mail room of his father’s high-powered law firm. The real world, as seen through Marcelo’s eyes, turns out to be an often confusing mix of true and false friends, honesty and lies, that he must first learn to navigate and then choose to accept or reject for himself.

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