num_pages: 195
description: 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 secrets and regrets we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight.Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruzs most ambitious and moving novel yet and Cara is a heroine for the ages.
language: English
title: How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
publisher: Flatiron Books