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    Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel
    Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel
    Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel
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    Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel

    Written by Angie Cruz

    Narrated by Stacy Gonzalez

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    Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel Garcia Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colon family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future.

    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 aide and, at night, hides unopened bills from the credit card company where Santo won't find them when he returns from driving his livery cab.

    When Santo's mother dies and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years with the Colons, nothing will ever be the same. Don Chan remembers fighting together with Santo in the revolution against Trujillo's cruel regime, the promise of who his son might have been, had he not fallen under Esperanza's spell.

    Let It Rain Coffee is a sweeping novel about love, loss, family, and the elusive nature of memory and desire.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 31, 2022
    ISBN9781666179446
    Author

    Angie Cruz

    Angie Cruz is the author of the novels How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water, Soledad, Let It Rain Coffee, and Dominicana, which was shortlisted for the Women's Prize and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. 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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    • 4/5
      Because I was familiar with the history of DR from reading In the Time of the Butterflies by Juila Alvarez I understood some of the political references but my friend who was not, was very lost while reading this book. Just brush up on the history of the island to understand some of the flashbacks if you read this book.
      I enjoyed it and will look for more books from this author.