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Angie Cruz

In conversation with Irina Reyn

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“Angie Cruz, I’m so glad the time has come. What a wonderful, nuanced, and insightful writer.”

EDWIDGE DANTICAT

Angie Cruz is the author of the novels Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee, a finalist in 2007 for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has published work in The New York Times and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. She is founder and editor in chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Her latest novel, Dominicana begins with fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion. Ana never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate.

In bright, musical prose that reflects the energy of New York City, Angie Cruz’s Dominicana is a vital portrait of the immigrant experience and the timeless coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world.

“This story feels so right for this moment. Cruz captures the texture and tenor of being an immigrant woman, caught between worlds and loyalties.”

JULIA ALVAREZ

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Book Signing

A book signing will follow the lecture. Books will be available for sale from White Whale Bookstore.

WHEN

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 6 p.m.

TICKETS

Free, with registration
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Registration may also be completed via phone (412.622.8866).

WHERE

South Wing Reading Room
Carnegie Library Main (Oakland), 2nd Floor
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213

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