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The Things We Didn’t Know by Elba Irez Pérez is a novel about the difficulties of cultures integrating into American society in the late 50s and early 60s. Taking place in a small Massachusetts’s factory town strong in tradition and history. It involves two children Andrea and Pablo and the difficulties of acceptance of moving to the United States from Puerto Rico as a child. To what extent will one go to to fit in? This involves family interfering and the difference in girls and girls in a Puerto Rican culture, such as cultural identity, generational conflict, and the search for belonging. The novel is a multi-generational story that delves into the hidden truths and unspoken secrets that bind and separate family members.