Title: América's dream
First published: 1996
Description: América Gonzalez is a hotel housekeeper on an island off the coast of Puerto Rico, cleaning up after wealthy foreigners who don't look her In the eye. Her alcoholic mother resents her; her married boyfriend, Correa, beats her; and their fourteen-year-old daughter thinks life would be better anywhere but with América. So when América is offered the chance to work as alive-in housekeeper and nanny for a family in Westchester County, New York, she takes it as a sign that a door to escape has been opened. Yet even as América revels in the comparative luxury of her new life, daring to care about a man other than Correa, she is faced with dramatic proof that no matter what she does, she can't get away from her past.
Subjects: Fiction, Hotel cleaning personnel, Housekeepers, Mothers and daughters, Puerto Rican women, Women domestics, Women household employees, Women, Fiction, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places: Puerto Rico, United States, Westchester County (N.Y.)
LC classification: PS3569.A5452 A44 1996