![]() ![]() 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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