{"product_id":"tell-it-to-me-singing-9781982157319","title":"Tell It to Me Singing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery in this tender and twisty debut novel.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMonica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Monica's father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, Monica doesn't know what to believe--whether the confession was real or just a channeling of the telenovela her mother watches nightly. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her despair, Monica wants to speak with only one person: her ex-boyfriend of five years, Manny. She can't help but worry, though, what this says about her relationship with her fiancé and father of her unborn child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMonica's search for the truth leads her to a new understanding of the past: the early eighties when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous seventies, a decade after Castro's takeover, when some people were still secretly fighting his regime--people like her mother and the man she claims is Monica's real father. \u003ci\u003eTell It to Me Singing\u003c\/i\u003e is a story that takes readers from Miami to Cuba to the jungles of Costa Rica and, along the way, explores the question of how and to whom we belong, how a life is built, and how we know when we're home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e S\u0026amp;s\/ Marysue Rucci Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982157319\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400","brand":"Tita Ramirez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44145913921717,"sku":"9781982157319","price":24.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_70e3d006-173b-4dd8-8383-1add5ac9700b.jpg?v=1715699115","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tell-it-to-me-singing-9781982157319","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}