America's Dream
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Esmeralda Santiago
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Auteur(s):
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Esmeralda Santiago
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"Lyrical [and] haunting, América’s liberating epiphany will have readers...on their feet and cheering." (Washington Post)
Deftly written and fiercely resilient, América’s Dream explores the ever-shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant who has dared to realize the American dream.
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 14-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.
©2009 Esmeralda Santiago (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers