| Description |
262 pages 21 cm |
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"A Vintage Books original"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
A uniquely dark, coming-of-age novel rife with urban magical realism, love, and redemption, from the author of Bodega Dreams When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina's baby as a revolution in nature). After meeting Taína's uncle, "El Vejigante", an ex-con with a dark past, he accepts his proposal to support her during her pregnancy and becomes entangled in a web of crime that, while taking him closer to Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed. |
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Puerto Ricans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Ecuadorians -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Organized crime -- Fiction.
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Family secrets -- Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781984897480 (pbk.) |
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