{"product_id":"americas-dream-9780063074132","title":"America's Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Lyrical [and] haunting, América's liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering.\" -- \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the award-winning, best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eWhen I Was Puerto Rican, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmérica's Dream\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmérica 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 América. So when América 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, even as América 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSantiago, Esmeralda:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eEsmeralda Santiago is the author of three groundbreaking memoirs: \u003cem\u003eWhen I was Puerto Rican\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlmost a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e (which she adapted into a Peabody Award-winning movie for PBS Masterpiece), and \u003cem\u003eThe Turkish Lover\u003c\/em\u003e. Her fiction includes the novels \u003cem\u003eAmérica's Dream\u003c\/em\u003e (also made into a film) and \u003cem\u003eConquistadora\u003c\/em\u003e, and a children's book, \u003cem\u003eA Doll for Navidades\u003c\/em\u003e. Esmeralda is passionate about the artistic development of young people and has traveled the world as a public speaker encouraging literacy, memoir writing, and storytelling. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50479254012178,"sku":"9780063074132","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a41f6da3-25a0-4ad5-b735-6a64af48191f.jpg?v=1730309684","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/americas-dream-9780063074132","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}