How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz

From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie
Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman
who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story
Will have you LAUGHING line after line. . . Cruz AIMS FOR THE HEART,
and fires." - Los Angeles Times
"An endearing portrait of a FIERCE, FUNNY woman." - The Washington
Post
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest
of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession,
she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with
a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the
course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her
alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister
Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what
really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara
confronts her darkest (...)

Angie Cruz is the author of the novels How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water,
Soledad, Let It Rain Coffee, and Dominicana, which was shortlisted for the
Women's Prize and a Good Morning America Book Club pick. 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.

Flatiron Books
On Sale: Sep 5/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 208 pages
Includes two black-and-white art elements in text
9781250208460 • $23.99 • pb
Fiction / Literary