{"product_id":"americas-dream-9780063074132","title":"Americas Dream","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLyrical [and] haunting, América’s liberating epiphany will have readers . . . on their feet and cheering. — \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the award-winning, best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eWhen I Was Puerto Rican, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmérica’s Dream\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmérica 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49874778095959,"sku":"9780063074132","price":14.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780063074132.jpg?v=1737737275","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/americas-dream-9780063074132","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}