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Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel
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Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel Trade paperback - 2006

by Angie Cruz

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From the author of "Soledad" comes the sweeping story of immigrants from the Dominican Republic who come to Nueva York for their slice of the American dream.

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  • Title Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel
  • Author Angie Cruz
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster, Riverside, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date May 2006
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 30775
  • ISBN 9780743212045 / 0743212045
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.54 x 0.79 in (20.88 x 14.07 x 2.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, New York (N.Y.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel García Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future.

Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home aide and, at night, hides unopened bills from the credit card company where Santo won't find them when he returns from driving his livery cab.

When Santo's mother dies and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years with the Colóns, nothing will ever be the same. Don Chan remembers fighting together with Santo in the revolution against Trujillo's cruel regime, the promise of who his son might have been, had he not fallen under Esperanza's spell.

Let It Rain Coffee is a sweeping novel about love, loss, family, and the elusive nature of memory and desire.

First line

Months after his wife passed away, Don Chan found himself at Las Americas Airport in the city of Santo Domingo.

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Media reviews

"Angie Cruz's Let It Rain Coffee is a stunning sweep of history, memory, and fantasy that demonstrates a talent unmatched by any other young writer."

-- El Paso Times

Citations

  • New York Times, 06/25/2006, Page 24

About the author

Angie Cruz was born and raised in the Washington Heights section of New York City. She is a graduate of SUNY Binghamton and received her MFA from New York University. Her fiction and activist work have earned her the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, and the Bronx Writers' Center Van Lier Literary Fellowship. She is the author of Soledad?, Dominicana?, and Let It Rain Coffee. She currently resides in New York City. Visit the author at AngieCruz.com.