Angie Cruz
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately...
2) Dominicana
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Cruz's Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Esperanza, having persuaded her husband Santo to flee the Dominican Republic in pursuit of the glittering kind of life she sees on American television, instead winds up in a cramped apartment in Washington Heights, and things become worse when Santo's father, who never approved of Esperanza, comes to live out his final years with them.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 21 cm
Description
" Tia Gorda has always claimed Soledad was born con la pata caliente -- with feet burning to be anywhere but here. In truth, Soledad couldn't wait to get beyond the stifling confines of West 164th Street, away from her superstitious, contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights from the leering men with their potbellies, the slick-skinned teen girls with their raunchy mouths and snapping gum. At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away...
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xiv, 570 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...