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>Distributed Titles / Puerto Rican Literature |
>>América's Dream |
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Esmeralda SantiagoAmérica González is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners. 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 County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as América revels in the comparative luxury of her new life, she is faced with dramatic proof that she can't escape her past.
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ISBN: 0-06-092826-3
325 pp. | paper only | $14.00