Bücher von Angie Cruz

A poignant and nuanced portrait of a Dominican teenager's arranged marriage and immigration to New York City in the 1960s

Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue; this issue will feature Fiction and Interviews.¿

Aster(ix) is a laboratory, a space where women writers of color can play and experiment. We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a double best-of issue; this issue will feature Poetry and Nonfiction, and Fall 2023 will feature Fiction and Interviews.

Edges: An Aster(ix) Anthology features writers, both established and emerging, whose prose and poetry embraces the themes of establishing, breaking, and defying edges."she stares at the world, takes it to the edge of all the words men weren't able to invent." -Nathalie Handal

My mother loved the moon and would talk to me of their kinship, of her endless respect for the big pale planet and its pull. At night she'd stay out on the balcony, smoking and murmuring. The things they spoke about-who knew.-"Nightgown," Sue Rainsford

At eighteen, Soledad couldn''t get away fast enough from her contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights. Two years later, she''s an art student at Cooper Union with a gallery job and a hip East Village walk-up. But when Tía Gorda calls with the news that Soledad''s mother has lapsed into an emotional coma, she insists that Soledad''s return is the only cure. Fighting the memories of open hydrants, leering men, and slick-skinned teen girls with raunchy mouths and snapping gum, Soledad moves home to West 164th Street. As she tries to tame her cousin Flaca''s raucous behavior and to resist falling for Richie -- a soulful, intense man from the neighborhood -- she also faces the greatest challenge of her life: confronting the ghosts from her mother''s past and salvaging their damaged relationship. Evocative and wise, Soledad is a wondrous story of culture and chaos, family and integrity, myth and mysticism, from a Latina literary light.

With her first novel, Angie Cruz established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin-American fiction. Junot Diaz called her "e;a revelation"e; and The Boston Globe compared her writing to that of Gabriel Garca Mrquez. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Coln family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future. Esperanza did not risk her life fleeing the Dominican Republic to live in a tenement in Washington Heights. No, she left for the glittering dream she saw on television: JR, Bobby Ewing, and the crystal chandeliers of Dallas. But years later, she is still stuck in a cramped apartment with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home aide and, at night, stuffs unopened bills from the credit card company in her lingerie drawer where Santo won't find them when he returns from driving his livery cab. Despite their best efforts, they cannot seem to change their present circumstances. But when Santo's mother dies, back in Los Llanos, and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years in the Colns' small apartment, nothing will ever be the same. Santo had so much promise before he fell for that maldita woman, thinks Don Chan, especially when he is left alone with his memories of the revolution they once fought together against Trujillo's cruel regime, the promise of who Santo might have been, had he not fallen under Esperanza's spell. From the moment Don Chan arrives, the tension in the Coln household is palpable. Flashing between past and present, Let It Rain Coffee is a sweeping novel about love, loss, family, and the elusive nature of memory and desire, set amid the crosscurrents of the history and culture that shape our past and govern our future.