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América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on 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... read more

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It' her life, and she' in the middle of it.

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Publication Date: 1996
ISBN: 0060172797
Page Count: 325

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