Sale
America's Dream: A Novel
Harper Perennial
ISBN13:
9780063074132
$16.99
$16.30
It's 1996, and América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester, New York, she takes it as a sign to finally make the escape she's been longing for. Yet, even as América revels in the comparative luxury of her new life--daring to care about a man other than Correa--she is faced with the disquieting realization that no matter what she does, she can never really escape her past. Deftly written and fiercely resilient, this novel explores the ever-shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant who has dared to realize the American dream. --Chicago Tribune
- | Author: Esmeralda Santiago
- | Publisher: Harper Perennial
- | Publication Date: April 06, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 368 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0063074133
- | ISBN-13: 9780063074132
- Author:
- Esmeralda Santiago
- Publisher:
- Harper Perennial
- Publication Date:
- April 06, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 368 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0063074133
- ISBN-13:
- 9780063074132