Let it Rain Coffee
From the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Dominicana
$35.12
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2021
Summary
Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home help and, at night, hides unopened bills from the credit card company where Santo won’t find them when he returns from driving his minicab. When Santo’s mother dies and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years with th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529359770 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529359775 |
| Author: | Angie Cruz |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2021 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 24mm |
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A stunning sweep of history, memory, and fantasy that demonstrates a talent unmatched by any other young writer
A stunning sweep of history, memory, and fantasy that demonstrates a talent unmatched by any other young writer * El Paso Times *A writer of grace and true grit, an uncommon and laudable combination of gifts * St Louis Dispatch *
About The Author
Angie Cruz
Angie Cruz is the author of the novels Soledad, Let It Rain Coffee, a finalist in 2007 for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and Dominicana, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020. She has published work in the New York Times, VQR, Gulf Coast Literary Journal, and other publications, and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. She is founder and editor in chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.
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