<i>Speak to Me of Home</i> explores the compassion, frustration, and determination of emigrants from Puerto Rico to America. Cummins' characters leap off the page, many suffering homesickness, some hiding secrets, but all filled with love. A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest

- John Boyne, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies,

From the internationally bestselling author of American Dirt, comes a classic novel of a family in crisis'A riveting tale of three generations, this is storytelling at its finest'JOHN BOYNE, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies______'Why hadn't she said to her daughter I love you beyond reason and none of this matters at all and every day that you breathe is a gift?'Rafaela Acuña y Daubón remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth and Benny, to the American Midwest, and losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip.Her daughter, in New York with a family of her own, wishes she could forget her muddy feelings about where she comes from - the same feelings which motivated her 22-year-old daughter Daisy to reconnect with their past.Daisy, who has momentarily forgotten everything, hears the word critical in a hospital room in San Juan and remembers, all at once, the car that hurtled towards her, the terrible storm, and something else. What was it?Now Ruth and Rafaela must return to the city where it all began, to gather by Daisy's bedside and confront the twists of fate that have caused a growing rift in their family and led them to this moment. ______⭐ Readers are loving Speak to Me of Home: ⭐ 'Jeanine Cummins has once again proven herself to be a master storyteller... an essential read' 'Left me thinking about it for days after... Highly recommend!''Richly crafted, mesmerising and beautifully written'
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Can the truth bring them back together before it's too late? A classic novel of a family in crisis, from the author of the runaway bestseller AMERICAN DIRT

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781472288806
Publisert
2025-05-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Tinder Press
Vekt
41 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
448

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Biographical note

Jeanine Cummins is the author of AMERICAN DIRT, which has sold over 3.5 million copies globally, and has been translated into 37 languages, the novels THE OUTSIDE BOY, THE CROOKED BRANCH and the true crime work A RIP IN HEAVEN, all of which are published by Tinder Press. AMERICAN DIRT was selected for Oprah's Book Club and the Richard and Judy Book Club and was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller, and reached no. 2 in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. She lives in New York with her husband and two children.