{"product_id":"9780063074132-americas-dream-a-novel","title":"Santiago Esmeralda - America's Dream A Novel - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: \" Lyrical and haunting Am rica's liberating epiphany will have readers on their feet and cheering.\" Washington Post From the award - winning best - selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican Am rica's Dream explores the ever - shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant who has dared to realize the American dream. Am rica Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques an island off the coast of Puerto Rico cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don t look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend Correa beats her; and their fourteen - year - old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with Am rica. So when Am rica is offered the chance to work as a live - in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester New York she takes it as a sign to finally make the escape she's been longing for. Yet even as Am rica revels in the comparative luxury of her new life daring to care about a man other than Correa she is faced with the disquieting realization that no matter what she does she can never really escape her past.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: America's Dream A Novel\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Santiago Esmeralda\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Harpercollins\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780063074132\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 368 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 8\/11\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Santiago Esmeralda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590860284209,"sku":"IN-G-9780063074132","price":20.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780063074132-americas-dream-a-novel","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}