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Dominicana
- Title
- Dominicana / Angie Cruz.
- Author
- Cruz, Angie
- Publication
- New York : Flatiron Books, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-10626 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 322 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- Fifteen-year-old Ana Canción 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. 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 she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by César, Juan's free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay. As the Dominican Republic slides into political turmoil, Juan returns to protect his family's assets, leaving César to take care of Ana. Suddenly, Ana is free to take English lessons at a local church, lie on the beach at Coney Island, see a movie at Radio City Music Hall, go dancing with César, and imagine the possibility of a different kind of life in America. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family.
- Subject
- Immigrants > Fiction
- Man-woman relationships > Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- Dominicans (Dominican Republic) > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- Arranged marriage > Fiction
- FICTION / Historical / General
- FICTION / Hispanic & Latino
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Arranged marriage
- Families
- Immigrants
- Man-woman relationships
- Dominican Republic > History > Revolution, 1965 > Fiction
- Dominican Republic > Emigration and immigration > Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10626
- ISBN
- 9781250205933
- 125020593X
- 9781250205926 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019012554
- OCLC
- 1079850327
- Author
- Cruz, Angie, author.
- Title
- Dominicana / Angie Cruz.
- Publisher
- New York : Flatiron Books, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Other Form:
- Online version: Cruz, Angie. Dominicana. First Edition. New York : Flatiron Books, 2019 9781250205926 (OCoLC)1117450790
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10626