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How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz
Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell, Rossmery Almonte
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About this listen

From the author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted Dominicana comes an inventive, funny and deeply moving new novel about a Dominican-American woman who has lost her job, her son and her sense of purpose but is fighting to get it all back.

Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work.

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 Cruz's most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.

©2022 Angie Cruz (P)2022 Macmillan Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature Funny

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"One of my favorite books I have read in years." (Quiara Alegria Hudes, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter of In the Heights)
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I usually hate audio books that include sound effects in the narrative so I was initially put off by this one. However in this case the sound effects only add to the listening experience and take nothing away.

This was an immersive experience and an excellent performance. 👏🏾

Having said that I am not sure how the book would read and if it would be so alive and engaging without the performance of the voice actor

Pleasantly surprised

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an honest voice, an incredibly relatable narrator, I loved the production sound effects and the story.

Absolutely Inspirational!

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Stupendo!!! Narrato proprio benissimo, il top sarebbe stato avere Angie Cruz, ma la narratrice fa un lavoro egregio e la storia e’ bellissima.

Bellissimo!

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Wow. This story was very touching. No matter how hard our immigrant parents misunderstand us, just know they are trying their best to survive. I recommend everyone to listen/read this book, especially kids of immigrants. The narrator was also amazing, and made the experience of listening to this audiobook engaging for me.

Amazing

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This was a really different book and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Only one person speaking but you felt like you knew her and her family and friends through the stories. At times her stories were funny, other times heartbreaking and often she was very irritating - I wanted to shout "no, don't write that" at her when she was completing official forms and job applications. But overall a very good book that I would recommend and excellent narration that brought the whole thing alive.

great story, great narration

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I kept going because of the rave reviews, I thought it must get better, but it wasn't for me. it was quite realistic, I liked the originality, and the acting was great. But I found it a bit tedius, whilst also a bit stressful, to listen to. if was a bit like listening to the ramblings of an elderly relative

if you don't like it from the start, give up

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