| Taína Contributor(s): Quiñonez, Ernesto (Author) |
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ISBN: 1984897489 ISBN-13: 9781984897480 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Hispanic & Latino - Fiction | Urban - Fiction | Romance - Contemporary |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2019010283 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.60 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic - Ethnic Orientation - Latino - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Ta na'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 Ta na, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed. |
