Taína
Ernesto Quiñonez$13.56
$15.95
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 Taína'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 Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/03/2019
ISBN: 9781984897480
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2019
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 25
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 Taína'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 Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/03/2019
ISBN: 9781984897480
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 07/29/2019
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 25