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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'A story for now, an important story . . . told with incredible freshness' Martha Lane Fox, Chair of Judges, Women's Prize 2020 'The harsh reality of immigration is balanc...

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A young girl harnesses the power of music to bridge the distance between the Dominican Republic and Washington Heights in this unforgettable picture book debut by the bestselling and award-winning author of Dominicana . All summer, Angélica...

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A Spanish-language edition of Angélica and la Güira , following a Dominican child who harnesses the power of music to bridge the distance between the Dominican Republic and Washington Heights, written by the bestselling and award-winning au...

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At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away fast enough from her contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights. Two years later, she's an art student at Cooper Union with a gallery job and a hip East Village walk-up. But when Tia Gor...

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From the author of "Soledad" comes the sweeping story of immigrants from the Dominican Republic who come to Nueva York for their slice of the American dream.

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Award-winning author Angie Cruz takes readers on a journey as one young woman must confront not only her own past of growing up in Washington Heights, but also her mother's. At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away fast enough from her contentious f...

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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction"e;Through a novel with so much depth, beauty, and grace, we, like Ana, are forever changed."e; -Jacqueline Woodson, Vanity Fair"e;Gorgeous writing...

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK * REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVERFrom GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost eve...

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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 for ...

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana , an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost e...

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This program features original sound design."e;Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Cara's su...

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'Cruz once again offers a fresh glimpse of immigration, womanhood, aspiration and gentrification . . . told in Cara's unfailingly frank, sometimes hilarious, voice' Washington Post Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. When Ca...

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'Cruz once again offers a fresh glimpse of immigration, womanhood, aspiration and gentrification . . . told in Cara's unfailingly frank, sometimes hilarious, voice' Washington Post Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. When Ca...

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With her first novel, Angie Cruz established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin-American fiction. Junot Diaz called her "e;a revelation"e; and The Boston Globe compared her writing to that of Gabriel Garca Mrquez. Now, with humor, pa...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'A story for now, an important story . . . told with incredible freshness' Martha Lane Fox, Chair of Judges, Women's Prize 2020 'The harsh reality of immigration is balanc...

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'Nobody's ever really given us such a revealing look at New York's Dominican population before . . . Cruz, in this determinedly real yet often magical novel, offers canny insights into family life' LA Times At eighteen, Soledad...

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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...

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An extraordinary coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world, now in a Spanish language edition. / Una extraordinaria novela de iniciación sobre una mujer joven que encuentra su voz en el mundo ahora en una edición en Españ...

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From the beloved author of Dominicana , a GMA Book Club Pick and Women’s Prize Finalist, this is the Spanish language edition of an electrifying and indelible novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her sto...

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Atravesando: An Aster(ix) Anthology features nineteen writers, both established and emerging, whose fiction and poetry embraces the themes of breaking through and crossing over. The writers hail from all over the country, many of whom inhabit limi...

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"What We Love arose from enacting a conversation, by bringing more voices to the table, where we are creating a home with good bones and impeccable intentions, so Aster(ix) can share writing that moves us. We revisited and have revised the As...

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Aster(ix) Journal presents, Best of Kweli, a compilation of 20 of the best prose and poems published in Kweli Journal (an online-only journal of experimental African American literature) in the past seven years. This issue of Aster(ix) is edited b...

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Edges: An Aster(ix) Anthology features writers, both established and emerging, whose prose and poetry embraces the themes of establishing, breaking, and defying edges. "she stares at the world, takes it to the edge of all the words men weren'...

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“In 2013 when we started Aster(ix), we didn’t know what we were committing ourselves to, but for the past five years the journal has been fueled with urgency, love and desire for a space that could house our wild tongue, imagination an...

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My mother loved the moon and would talk to me of their kinship, of her endless respect for the big pale planet and its pull. At night she'd stay out on the balcony, smoking and murmuring. The things they spoke about-who knew.-"Nightgown,"...

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"I simply decided once and for all... to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety... thanks to this decision, I have gained a space of my own, a space that is free, where I feel active and present." -Elena Ferrante

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For whom do we become malleable? When do we break? When do we bend? These are some of the questions being asked and explored by 12 writers who were invited to respond, react to, be in conversation with drawings from Laylah Ali's Studies series. Th...

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