{"product_id":"9781416535133","title":"Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel","description":"With her first novel, Angie Cruz established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin-American fiction. Junot Diaz called her \"a revelation\" and \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e compared her writing to that of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future. \u003cbr\u003e Esperanza did not risk her life fleeing the Dominican Republic to live in a tenement in Washington Heights. No, she left for the glittering dream she saw on television: JR, Bobby Ewing, and the crystal chandeliers of \u003ci\u003eDallas.\u003c\/i\u003e But years later, she is still stuck in a cramped apartment with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home aide and, at night, stuffs unopened bills from the credit card company in her lingerie drawer where Santo won't find them when he returns from driving his livery cab. Despite their best efforts, they cannot seem to change their present circumstances. \u003cbr\u003e But when Santo's mother dies, back in Los Llanos, and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years in the Colóns' small apartment, nothing will ever be the same. \u003ci\u003eSanto had so much promise before he fell for that maldita woman,\u003c\/i\u003e thinks Don Chan, especially when he is left alone with his memories of the revolution they once fought together against Trujillo's cruel regime, the promise of who Santo might have been, had he not fallen under Esperanza's spell. From the moment Don Chan arrives, the tension in the Colón household is palpable. \u003cbr\u003e Flashing between past and present, \u003ci\u003eLet It Rain Coffee\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping novel about love, loss, family, and the elusive nature of memory and desire, set amid the crosscurrents of the history and culture that shape our past and govern our future.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126497394928,"sku":"9781416535133","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416535133_p0.jpg?v=1763726266","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416535133","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}