America's Dream - Esmeralda Santiago - Music - HarperCollins - 9781665064330 - April 6, 2021
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Esmeralda Santiago
America's Dream

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

Deftly written and fiercely resilient, 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.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released April 6, 2021
ISBN13 9781665064330
Label HarperCollins
Dimensions 125 × 140 × 10 mm   ·   200 g   (Weight (estimated))

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