Taína - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockPublish date:2019-09-03Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781984897480ISBN-10:1984897489UPC:9781984897480Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Hispanic & Latino, Urban & Street Lit, RomanceBook Topic:ContemporarySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCBMDC1GH8
A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams
When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina's baby as a revolution in nature). After meeting Taína's uncle, "El Vejigante", an ex-con with a dark past, he accepts his proposal to support her during her pregnancy and becomes entangled in a web of crime that, while taking him closer to Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina's baby as a revolution in nature). After meeting Taína's uncle, "El Vejigante", an ex-con with a dark past, he accepts his proposal to support her during her pregnancy and becomes entangled in a web of crime that, while taking him closer to Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781984897480ISBN-10:1984897489UPC:9781984897480Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Hispanic & Latino, Urban & Street Lit, RomanceBook Topic:ContemporarySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.6Product ID:SCBMDC1GH8
Ernesto Quiñonez was born in Ecuador, but arrived to New York City he was eighteen months old and was raised in El Barrio, East Harlem. Quiñonez is also the author of Bodega Dreams and Chango's Fire. Quiñonez is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, where he teaches Creative Writing, Latino Fiction and Magical Realism, among others.
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