{"product_id":"americas-dream","title":"America's Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Lyrical [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 sign to finally make the escape she's been longing for. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833287422157,"sku":"9780063074132","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_42d12e7f-d714-45f6-a395-333d42173a08.jpg?v=1790815048","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/americas-dream","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}