Angie Cruz
1) Dominicana
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Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything...
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English
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"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. 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...
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English
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Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel Garcia Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colon family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future.
Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later...
4) Soledad
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Language
English
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Soledad, an art student at Cooper Union, discovers that the past is not so easy to evade when she is called back to Washington Heights to care for her mother.
5) Dominicana
Author
Publisher
Solferino
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Italiano
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Ana ha quindici anni, e non ha mai desiderato l'America. Vive a Santo Domingo, in campagna, con la sua famiglia, povera, rumorosa e dall'incerto futuro. La proposta di matrimonio di Juan Ruiz, che le promette una nuova vita a New York, è un'opportunità che non può perdere. È questa l'idea di sua madre, che vede in questa unione una via d'uscita non solo per Ana, ma per tutti i Canción. Non importa che il promesso sposo abbia il doppio dei suoi...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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Description
A young girl harnesses the power of music to bridge the distance between the Dominican Republic and Washington Heights in this jubilant picture book debut by Angie Cruz, bestselling and award-winning author of Dominicana.
Angélica has spent the summer in the Dominican Republic with her tías and primas, her grandparents, and their parrot, but soon she’ll have to say goodbye. The end of summer means returning home...
Angélica has spent the summer in the Dominican Republic with her tías and primas, her grandparents, and their parrot, but soon she’ll have to say goodbye. The end of summer means returning home...
7) Dominicana
Author
Publisher
Editorial Siete Cuentos / Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo a ganar...
