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1) Dominicana
Author
Publisher
Editorial Siete Cuentos / Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
El ︢ltimo d̕a de 1964, Ana Canci̤n, de quince ąos, se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre que le dobla la edad, en el campo dominicano. Al d̕a siguiente se convierte en Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada en un apartamento de una habitaci̤n en Washington Heights. Juan es infiel, abusivo y controlador, incluso le proh̕be aprender ingľs. Despǔs de una fuga fallida, Ana descubre que est̀ embarazada. Tanto su madre como su esposo comparan su embarazo...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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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