Soledad
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Word Count
59,250 words, Guess
Page Count
237 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesoledad00cruz
- Internet Archivesoledad0000cruz
- ISBN-100743212010
- ISBN-139780743212014
- Library of Congress Control Number2001032831
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number46936215
- Open LibraryOL3946643M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3603.R89 S65 2001
Description
Es una novel sobre la emigración, sobre el dolor de la ausencia, sobre el desgarro interior de las segundas generaciones, que, nacidas en el país de acogida, viven a caballo de dos mundos no siempre reconciliables.
Description
"Tia Gorda has always claimed Soledad was born con la pata caliente - with feet burning to be anywhere but here. In truth, Soledad couldn't wait to get beyond the stifling confines of West 164th Street, away from her superstitious, contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights; from the leering men with their potbellies, the slick-skinned teen girls with their raunchy mouths and snapping gum. At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away from the volume and the violence of the barrio some call Dominican Heights fast enough. Two years later, an art student at Cooper Union with a gallery job and a hip East Village walk-up, Soledad feels eminently cool and infinitely far from the neighborhood where she grew up.". "But when Gorda calls with the news that Olivia, Soledad's mother, has lapsed into an emotional coma, Soledad knows she hasn't escaped la familia. Gorda insists Soledad's return is the only thing that will cure Olivia. Fighting the memories of the life she's left - the broken hydrants on littered corners, her jealous cousin Flaca, her bizarre mother and, curiously, images of her mother's Dominican youth - Soledad returns home to Washington Heights. Her journey has only begun. As Soledad tries to salvage her damaged relationship with Olivia, tame Flaca's raucous behavior, tolerate her zany tia Gorda and resist falling for Richie, a soulful, intense man from the neighborhood, she also faces the greatest challenge of her life: confronting the ghosts from her mother's past."--BOOK JACKET.
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