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Author Santiago, Esmeralda, author.

Title América's dream : a novel / Esmeralda Santiago.

Publication Info. New York : Harper Perennial, [2021]

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-SANTIAGO    Check Shelf
Description ix, 351 pages ; 21 cm
Note "First Harper Perennial Edition published 1997"--Title page verso
"Reissued in Harper Perennial 2021"--Title page verso
Summary 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.
Subject Puerto Rican women -- Fiction.
Women household employees -- New York (State) -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Puerto Rico -- Fiction.
New York (State) -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
Puerto Rican women. (OCoLC)fst01083693
Women household employees. (OCoLC)fst01734125
New York (State) (OCoLC)fst01210280
Puerto Rico. (OCoLC)fst01205432
Genre/Form Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
ISBN 9780063074132 (paperback)
0063074133 (paperback)
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