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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Publication date
March 8, 2011
Pages
338
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781565129498
ISBN-10
1565129490
Dimensions
1 by 5 by 8 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$23.95
Summaries and Reviews
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Clara Lugo grew up in a home that would have rattled the most grounded of children. Through brains and determination, she has long since slipped the bonds of her confining Dominican neighborhood in the northern reaches of Manhattan. Now she tries to live a settled professional life with her American husband and son in the suburbs of New Jerseyâoften thwarted by her constellation of relatives who donât understand her gringa ways.
Her mostly happy life is disrupted, however, when Tito, a former boyfriend from fifteen years earlier, reappears. Something has impeded his passage into adulthood. His mother calls him an Unfinished Man. He still carries a torch for Clara; and she harbors a secret from their past. Their reacquaintance sets in motion an unraveling of both of their lives and reveals what the cost of assimilationâor the absence of itâhas meant for each of them.
This immensely entertaining novelâfilled with wit and compassionâmarks the debut of a fine writer.
Her mostly happy life is disrupted, however, when Tito, a former boyfriend from fifteen years earlier, reappears. Something has impeded his passage into adulthood. His mother calls him an Unfinished Man. He still carries a torch for Clara; and she harbors a secret from their past. Their reacquaintance sets in motion an unraveling of both of their lives and reveals what the cost of assimilationâor the absence of itâhas meant for each of them.
This immensely entertaining novelâfilled with wit and compassionâmarks the debut of a fine writer.
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Hardcover
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from Algonquin Books (March 8, 2011)
9781565129498 | details & prices | 338 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $23.95
About: Clara Lugo grew up in a home that would have rattled the most grounded of children.
About: Clara Lugo grew up in a home that would have rattled the most grounded of children.
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