Tell It to Me Singing

By Tita Ramírez

Book Overview

An "utterly unforgettable" (Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here) debut novel about a Cuban American family sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter.

M nica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: M nica's father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, M nica doesn't know what to believe--whether the confession was real or just a channeling of the telenovela her mother watches nightly.

In her despair, M nica wants to speak with only one person: her ex-boyfriend of five years, Manny. She can't help but worry, though, what this says about her relationship with her fianc and father of her unborn child.

M nica's search for the truth leads her to a new understanding of the past--the early '80s, when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous '70s, a decade after Castro's takeover, when some people were still secretly fighting his regime--people like her mother and the man she claims is M nica's real father.

Tell It to Me Singing is "so fantastic and funny, so full of life, and so full of genuine heart that, like your favorite binge-worthy show, you'll have trouble pulling yourself away" (Cristina Henr quez, author of The Great Divide). This "rich portrait" (Kirkus Reviews) of a family takes readers from Miami to Cuba to the jungles of Costa Rica and, along the way, explores the question of how and to whom we belong, how a life is built, and how we know we're home.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982157313
• ISBN13: 9781982157319
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: S&s/ Marysue Rucci Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"