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Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Cara Romero creía que trabajaría en una factoría de lamparitas por el resto de su vida. Pero cuando, a los cincuenta y seis años, pierde su trabajo durante la Gran Recesión, se ve obligada a volver al mercado laboral por la primera vez en décadas. Con el apoyo de una consejera laboral, Cara comienza a narrar la historia de su vida. En el transcurso de doce sesiones, Cara recuenta sus amoríos tempestuosos; sus relaciones a la vez hirientes...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
A story of unlikely bonds made under dire straits. Holly is a young widow with two kids living in a ramshackle house in the same small town where she grew up wealthy. Now barely able to make ends meet editing the town's struggling newspaper, she manages to stay afloat with help from her family. Then her mother suffers a stroke, and Holly's world begins to completely fall apart. Vivian has lived an extraordinary life, despite the fact that she has...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
As a stoned teenager, Jon Willing thought he had the perfect plan for stealing a fortune in drug money. Twenty-five years later, a failing suburban dad with tan pants, he finds out how wrong he was. The battle that ensues will send Jon skittering across a landscape wracked by the Great Recession to confront the demons of his past: the grade-school bully who has terrorized him for decades, the grandfather that betrayed him, the girl that got away.
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