America’s Dream
by Esmeralda Santiago
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- ISBN: 9780060928261 (0060928263)
- Genres: fiction, novels, cultural, contemporary, school
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Author: Esmeralda Santiago
- Release date: April 25, 1997
- Format: paperback, 336 pages
- Language: english
About The Book
It’s 1996, and 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 fourteen-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.
Deftly written and fiercely resilient, this novel 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.
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