![]() ![]() Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. “Gorgeous writing, gorgeous story.” -Sandra Cisnerosįifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. “Through a novel with so much depth, beauty, and grace, we, like Ana, are forever changed.” -Jacqueline Woodson, Vanity Fair Shortlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction ![]()
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