Una extraordinaria novela de iniciación sobre una mujer joven que encuentra su voz en el mundo ahora en una edición en Español.Įl último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. A timeless portrait of womanhood and citizenship, which rings true in this era of forced migration. During that respite from confinement she experiences true love, which awakens her will to fight for independence from her abuser and for the right to stay in her adopted homeland. Juan returns briefly to the Dominican Republic when the civil war begins, leaving César, his brother, to care for Ana. Both her mother and husband compare her pregnancy to winning the lottery, her child will have American citizenship. After a failed escape, Ana learns she is pregnant. Juan is unfaithful, abusive, and controlling, he even forbids her from learning English. The following day she becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a one-bedroom in Washington Heights. On the last day of 1964, fifteen-year-old Ana Canción maries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican countryside. An extraordinary coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world, now in a Spanish language edition.
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