Angie Cruz, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1201-4
To write the definitive novel of a New York neighborhood can be to strike literary gold—just ask Jonathan Lethem. Washington Heights native and Dominican activist Cruz stakes a clumsy claim to the area with this overwrought first effort....
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Angie Cruz, Author . Simon & Schuster $22 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1203-8
An immigrant family is tested by a series of problems in this unsentimental American dream story by Cruz (Soledad
). Heavily influenced by American television, Esperanza Colón finally has enough money in her secret savings to flee the...
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Angie Cruz. Flatiron, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-20593-3
The demands and expectations of family are an overpowering force in this enthralling story about Dominican immigrants in the mid-1960s from Cruz (Let It Rain Coffee). Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion, living in the Dominican countryside, becomes Ana...
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Angie Cruz. Flatiron, $27.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-20845-3
Cruz (Dominicana) returns with a wry story of the Latinx community in New York City’s gentrifying Washington Heights in the late 2000s. Cara Romero, a single woman in her 50s, is unexpectedly jobless after the factory where she worked shuts down....
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Angie Cruz, illus. by Luz Batista. Kokila, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-5934-0601-4
As Angélica and her family prepare to travel from the Dominican Republic, where they’ve spent the summer, back to New York, she knows she’ll soon say goodbye to her family. The day before she leaves, Abuelito gives her a family heirloom, a Güira,...
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