When Tito Loved Clara
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Through brains and determination, librarian Clara Lugo has long since slipped the bonds of her confining Dominican neighborhood in the northern reaches of Manhattan. Now she tries to live a settled professional life with her American husband and son in the suburbs of New Jersey--often thwarted by her constellation of relatives who don't understand her gringa ways. Her mostly happy life is disrupted, however, when Tito, a former boyfriend from fifteen years earlier, reappears. Something has impeded his passage into adulthood. He still carries a torch for Clara; and she harbors a secret from their past. Their reacquaintance sets in motion an unraveling of both of their lives and reveals what the cost of assimilation--or the absence of it--has meant for each of them.
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PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 338 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781565129498 (hbk.)
1565129490 (hbk.)
SUBJECTS
Dominican Americans -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.
Librarians -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.