America's Dream: A Novel by Esmeralda Santiago

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/495122 to listen full audiobooks. Title: America's Dream: A Novel Author: Esmeralda Santiago Narrator: Esmeralda Santiago Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 24 minutes Release date: April 6, 2021 Genres: Contemporary Women Publisher's Summary: ''Lyrical [and] haunting, América’s liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering.'' — Washington Post From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, América’s Dream explores the ever-shifting definition of what it means to be American and exemplifies the spirit of every immigrant who has dared to realize the American dream. América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on Vieques, an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don’t look her in the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester, New York, she takes it as a sign to finally make the escape she's been longing for.  Yet, even as América revels in the comparative luxury of her new life—daring to care about a man other than Correa—she is faced with the disquieting realization that no matter what she does, she can never really escape her past.