A conversation with Angie Cruz about her latest novel, Dominicana. 9/18 @ 6pm.

 

https://pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/angie-cruz/

 

“Angie Cruz, I’m so glad the time has come. What a wonderful, nuanced, and insightful writer.”

EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Angie Cruz is the author of the novels Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee, a finalist in 2007 for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has published work in The New York Times and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. She is founder and editor in chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Her latest novel, Dominicana begins with fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion. Ana never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate.

In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Angie Cruz’s Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world.

 

Here’s a little blurb from the bookstore at City of Asylum

Dominicana by Angie Cruz
In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Angie Cruz's Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world. Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, The Millions, AARP
Available on September 3rd.