Taína
(2019)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: cloudLibrary

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PUBLISHED
[S.l.]: Penguin Random House, 2019
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 sound file (07hr., 12min., 19sec.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9780593151341 vd435r9
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Molina, Daniel José

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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