Quinonez Ernesto B. - Taina - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A 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 na'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 na ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
Title: Taina
Author(s): Quinonez Ernesto B.
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9781984897480
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 9/3/2019
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction