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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Throughout his youth, Dan-el navigated two worlds: the rough streets of East Harlem, where he lived with his brother and his mother and tried to make friends, and the ultra-elite halls of a Manhattan private school, where he could immerse himself in a world of books and where he soon rose to the top of his class. From Collegiate, Dan-el went to Princeton, where he thrived, and where he made the momentous decision to come out as an undocumented student...
Author
Language
English
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Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family...
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...
4) 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...
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