Angie Cruz
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Cara Romero creía que trabajaría en una factoría de lamparitas por el resto de su vida. Pero cuando, a los cincuenta y seis años, pierde su trabajo durante la Gran Recesión, se ve obligada a volver al mercado laboral por la primera vez en décadas. Con el apoyo de una consejera laboral, Cara comienza a narrar la historia de su vida. En el transcurso de doce sesiones, Cara recuenta sus amoríos tempestuosos; sus relaciones a la vez hirientes...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East...