Let It Rain Coffee, Angie Cruz
Let It Rain Coffee, Angie Cruz
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Let It Rain Coffee
A Novel

Author: Angie Cruz

Narrator: Stacy Gonzalez

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/31/2022


Synopsis

Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel García Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future.

Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home aide and, at night, hides unopened bills from the credit card company where Santo won't find them when he returns from driving his livery cab.

When Santo's mother dies and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years with the Colóns, nothing will ever be the same. Don Chan remembers fighting together with Santo in the revolution against Trujillo's cruel regime, the promise of who his son might have been, had he not fallen under Esperanza's spell.

Let It Rain Coffee is a sweeping novel about love, loss, family, and the elusive nature of memory and desire.

About Angie Cruz

Angie Cruz was born and raised in the Washington Heights section of New York City. She is a graduate of SUNY Binghamton and received her MFA from New York University. Her fiction and activist work have earned her the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, and the Bronx Writers' Center Van Lier Literary Fellowship. She is the author of Soledad, Dominicana, and Let It Rain Coffee. She currently resides in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bryce on November 17, 2017

I'm strongly of two minds with this one. 3 stars feels more accurate as a result, but I loved the ending too much to snub it of a star. I can see what people mean when they say Cruz's voice echos Gabriel García Márquez. My biggest criticism of this was similar to that in One Hundred Years of Solitud......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on March 04, 2011

Before reading this review, you really must learn something about the history of the Dominican Republic. The majority of the flashbacks concerned the Presidency of Trujillo, but there are other aspect of the country's history that are essential to understanding the story. Also, if your Spanish is as......more

Goodreads review by Katie on May 20, 2021

Swimming in vibrant visual language, Cruz takes us from the Dominican Republic to Neuva York. Chef Cruz has curated a story which so perfectly balances the horrors of dictatorship, the chasm of the class divide, media brainwashing, consumerism, individual want and desire, the conflicting obligation......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on November 25, 2022

So I was lowkey afraid this was going to be too similar to Dominica (the book Angie Cruz published after this one) but thankfully neither books are that much alike in terms of plot. While I do believe a lot of Dominicans seem to view New York as a Mecca, maybe it was because this was one of the view......more

Goodreads review by Corrina on November 30, 2017

This book is a excellent book. It has everything a person could be looking for, romance, loss, funny, and family love. The book goes on to to have a wonderful mixture of all these things, especially the ending. The end of the book was the bow on top of the present; wrapping is up with a nice twist o......more