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Availability:In StockContributor:Esmeralda SantiagoPublish date:2021-04-06Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780063074132ISBN-10:63074133UPC:9780063074132Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Hispanic & Latino, Women, Cultural HeritageSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCETP2R5HP

"Lyrical [and] haunting, América's liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering." -- Washington Post

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, América's Dream 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.

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780063074132ISBN-10:63074133UPC:9780063074132Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Hispanic & Latino, Women, Cultural HeritageSize:7.90 x 5.30 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCETP2R5HP
Santiago, Esmeralda: -

Esmeralda Santiago is the author of three groundbreaking memoirs: When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman (which she adapted into a Peabody Award-winning movie for PBS Masterpiece), and The Turkish Lover. Her fiction includes the novels América's Dream (also made into a film) and Conquistadora, and a children's book, A Doll for Navidades. Esmeralda is passionate about the artistic development of young people and has traveled the world as a public speaker encouraging literacy, memoir writing, and storytelling. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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