My Train Leaves at Three: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Guerrero, Natalie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593977335 ISBN 13 : 9780593977330

Editeur : One World, 2025

Synopsis

A sharp, poignant story of a woman trying to rise from family pressure and grief to make it as a Broadway star, from a striking new voice.

After her sister Nena’s sudden death, Xiomara, an Afro-Latina singer and actress born and raised in Washington Heights, is numb. With her sister gone, Xiomara is painfully close to thirty, living in a tiny apartment with her ultra-Catholic Puerto Rican mother, and having the same shitty sex with the same shitty men that she’s been entertaining for years. Behind on rent despite two minimum-wage jobs, one of which involves singing show tunes while serving pancakes to tourists at Ellen’s Stardust Diner, Xiomara is bitingly cynical, especially in her grief, and barely treading water.
    But when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to audition for Manny Santos, the most charismatic director of the moment, falls into her lap, it seems to Xiomara like a second chance to pursue the dream she thought she’d left behind has finally come. Meanwhile, something about Santi, a new coworker at the print shop where she spends half of her days photocopying other performers’ headshots, starts to tug at the threads of her apathy. Nothing is simple, and soon Xiomara finds herself interacting with the ugliest sides of the industry and the powerful men that control it. While Xiomara grapples with the hard truth that sometimes the closer you are to your dreams, the further away from yourself you become, she is forced to ask herself if she has what it takes to build a new shiny life without losing the truth of her old one.
    With hopeful spirit and unapologetic energy, My Train Leaves at Three asks big questions about grief, shame, sexuality, family, and love. This is a coming-of-age story about the balancing act between moving on and moving forward.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Natalie Guerrero is a writer based in Los Angeles, California. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Electric Literature, Byline, Goop, and Blavity. Natalie's long-form work includes "On Silence," an essay published in Hungry Hearts (Dial Press), and Walking in My Joy (Amistad), an essay collection by actress Jenifer Lewis that Natalie co-authored. She has previously held positions at HarperCollins, WME Books, and Macro/M88. In her "free time," she can be found walking her dog, Tupac, in the hills of Los Feliz.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: One World
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593977335
• ISBN 13: 9780593977330
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: ONE WORLD; https://www.oneworldlit.com/; ; 1745 BROADWAY Attn: Madison Forwander; NEW YORK; NY; 10019; Etats-Unis
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