Speak to Me of Home by Cummins, Jeanine

Speak to Me of Home (CD) (ISBN-13: 9781250408433)

Vendor: Jeanine Cummins
Product type: Audio CD
Format: CD
$39.99
$39.99
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Speak to Me of Home by Cummins, Jeanine

Speak to Me of Home

$39.99
Speak to Me of Home by Cummins, Jeanine

Speak to Me of Home

$39.99
Format: CD
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What does it mean to call a place home?

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story

On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acu?a y Daub?n has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments.

In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother's isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela's daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. It's not until decades later when Ruth's own daughter, Daisy, returns to San Juan that her mother and grandmother begin to truly reflect on the choices that have come to define their lives.

When a hurricane ravages the island in 2023, leaving Daisy critically injured, Rafaela and Ruth return to the city where their story began. As they gather at Daisy's bedside, we follow them back into the moments that brought them to this point: we watch as they come of age, fall in love, take risks, and contend with all the heartbreaks, triumphs, and reversals of fortune--both good and bad--that make up a meaningful life. As old memories come to light, so do buried secrets, leaving everyone in the family wondering exactly where it is that they belong.

A striking, resonant examination of marriage, family, and identity, Speak to Me of Home is ultimately a story of mothers and daughters that asks: How can three women who share geography and genetics have such wildly different ideas of where they come from? And, more important, can they discover a common language to find their way back home?

Author: Jeanine Cummins
ISBN-10: 1250408431
ISBN-13: 9781250408433
Publisher: MacMillan Audio
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2025
Format: CD
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 1.00h x 1.00w x 1.00d
By Jeanine Cummins
By Jeanine Cummins
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Jeanine Cummins is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Dirt, which was an Oprah's Book Club and a Barnes & Noble Book Club selection, as well as a #1 Indie Next pick. The novel has been translated into thirty-seven languages and sold more than three and a half million copies worldwide. Her other works include the memoir A Rip in Heaven, and the novels The Outside Boy and The Crooked Branch. She lives in New York with her husband, their two daughters, and their dogs.

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