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Ta匤a (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781984897480)
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Ernesto Quinez
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xA 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匤a'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匤a, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
Author: Ernesto Quinez
ISBN-10: 1984897489
ISBN-13: 9781984897480
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2019
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 25
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匤a'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匤a, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
Author: Ernesto Quinez
ISBN-10: 1984897489
ISBN-13: 9781984897480
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2019
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 25
By Ernesto Quinez
xErnesto Quinez was born in Ecuador, but arrived to New York City he was eighteen months old and was raised in El Barrio, East Harlem. Quinez is also the author of Bodega Dreams and Chango's Fire. Quinez is an Associate Professor at Cornell University, where he teaches Creative Writing, Latino Fiction and Magical Realism, among others.
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