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ISBN10: 1984897489
ISBN13: 9781984897480
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 3 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781984897480
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 3 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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 TaÃna'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 TaÃna, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
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 TaÃna'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 TaÃna, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
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