Título: Tell It to Me Singing: A Novel
Autor: Tita Ramirez
Sinopse: A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery in this tender and twisty debut novel.
Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Monica’s father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, Monica 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, Monica 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 fiancé and father of her unborn child.
Monica’s search for the truth leads her to a new understanding of the past: the early eighties when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous seventies, 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 Monica’s real father. Tell It to Me Singing is a story that 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 when we’re home.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Tell It to Me Singing: A Novel”, de Tita Ramirez, publicado pela editora S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books, em 2024 e com 384 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Páginas: 384
Ano: 2024
Edição: 1
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1982157313
ISBN13: 9781982157319
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books costumam envolver tramas densas, onde o psicológico e as relações humanas ganham destaque em cenários tanto urbanos quanto pequenos vilarejos. A experiência de leitura frequentemente traz tensão crescente, com mistérios que revelam segredos do passado e conflitos íntimos, como dramas familiares e dilemas morais. O catálogo apresenta narrativas que transitam entre thrillers psicológicos e histórias de amadurecimento, com personagens complexos enfrentando perdas, rivalidades e desafios pessoais. A linguagem tende a ser direta, com ritmo que equilibra momentos de introspecção e cenas de suspense, muitas vezes explorando o impacto das escolhas e memórias.
