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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In Urrea's exuberant new novel of Mexican-American life, 70-year-old patriarch Big Angel de la Cruz is dying, and he wants to have one last birthday blowout. Unfortunately, his 100-year-old mother, America, dies the week of his party, so funeral and birthday are celebrated one day apart. The entire contentious, riotous de la Cruz clan descends on San Diego for the events. High rollers and college students, prison veternaos and welfare mothers, happy...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
At the intersection of "Americanah" and "The Help" comes a riveting debut novel about two marriages - one immigrant and working class, the other from the top 1% - both chasing their version of the American Dream. In the fall of 2007, Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Their situation only improves when Jende's wife Neni is hired as household help....
Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing & Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When Princess Theraisa Von Steiner discovers she is with child soon after the tragic death of her beloved David Ritter, there is no match for the trepidation that consumes her soul. Her Aunt Louisa advises her to travel to the Volga to have the child in secret. Little did they know that the journey would be so perilous and that the child would be the one responsible for bringing the Steiner bloodline to America at the turn of the century. Based on...
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