How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Angie Cruz

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Format
Hardback
Publisher
John Murray Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
16 February 2023
Pages
208
ISBN
9781399806893

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Angie Cruz

‘One of my favorite books I have read in years’ Quiara Alegria Hudes, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter of In the Heights

Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work.

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight.

Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz’s most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.

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