![]() Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. ![]() But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. Ana never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. ![]() Her latest novel, Dominicana begins with fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion. She is founder and editor in chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal, and is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. ![]() She has published work in The New York Times and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. Angie Cruz is the author of the novels Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee, a finalist in 2007 for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. ![]()
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