{"product_id":"2940173180919","title":"Synove¿ s¿te¿ste¿ny","description":"The apartment at 204 East Broadway was filled with laughter, music, singing, noises, and love. But it was also filled with whispers, fear, confusion, pain, anxiety, anger, tears, and hatred.\u003cp\u003e204 East Broadway is a novel about a typical loving family who emigrated from Puerto Rico in the early 1950's for a chance at the American Dream. But the children living at 204 East Broadway shared a secret, a secret they did not know they shared. It wasn't until many years later that they were able to talk about what happened to them in their young lives. Evels tells the story though the eyes of the one daughter who was able to release her fear, the one who many years later dared to look back to try and understand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a tale of family and the strong bonds between them despite the one person who betrayed them all. It is a story of child sexual abuse and domestic violence, and the impact the experience played in shaping who the children became as adults. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSolange is the leader and oldest of the children. She is the most combative of the four but the one who saw the most and took it upon herself to protect the others. This responsibility led her to weave it all into a world of her own making where only she is in control.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMadrigal is the youngest girl who spent her whole life believing sex equaled love. She went from one bad relationship to another, always being the abused wife or girlfriend and wallowing in her victim mentality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnrique is the youngest child who never felt love from his father and linked his mother's infidelities to his early sexual abuse. He became a recluse who shunned family in his quest for peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second child, Rosa, was spared the worst of the horror and it is she who internalized the pain suffered by her sisters and baby brother. She became the core of the family, always trying to keep them together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosa wants desperately to understand why she survived the early sexual abuse much better than her siblings. She feels guilty for all they endured and in her search for understanding she discovers that they had indeed endured much more than Rosa had originally imagined. With this knowledge anger reappeared in Rosa's heart, and as she mourned the loss of her loving father, she bitterly blamed him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Crude Detective the","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169407942896,"sku":"2940173180919","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940173180919_p0.jpg?v=1763846679","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940173180919","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}