"The title itself speaks to me of a feeling of nostalgia.

3 generations of women. Descendants of Puerto Ricans.The distance created over time; over distance; over values.
When one is in a car accident in San Juan, the 3 are reunited back.

What united them wasn’t just familial ties. They faced challenges where they went- in the U.S. they experienced racism; in Puerto Rico, class discrimination. Systematically created. Since the 50’s up to and including today. Secrets held for decades; truths finally realized. The entanglement of relationships.
This story speaks to the power of family.

It did move a little slow for me and there were several characters to keep track of. So although this was no American Dirt , it was still a solid and enjoyable story.
4⭐️&��ܴdz�;

"A one sit, audible sob, beautiful book.

You knew I’d write a book about you someday. This is how one of my new favorite books of the year, Heart the Lover, begins and I was hooked at line one. I’m so sorry to bring an October release to you now, but I LOVED this book and I want to tell you about it. It also has connections to Lily King’s Writers & Lovers if you want to read that in the meantime (it’s not necessary, and I didn’t love it as much, but I do LOVE Five Tuesdays in Winter by King).

Our narrator understands loves books and she loves love stories. She is a lit girl like us and loves a trope like hamartia, but her love story is much more complicated. She meets two guys in college and quickly becomes entangled in their lives. They call her Daisy, they call her Jordan, yes, nods to Gatsby, but I’m calling her our narrator as King is doing some interesting things with that. She’s gotta make a choice between the two, and does, and we meet her decades later when all her past decisions re-emerge in many ways.

I hadn’t seen reviews for this, so I didn’t know this was going to gut me. I didn’t know I was going to audibly sob on a plane and refuse to turn my phone off airplane mode until I finished every last, beautiful page. Before 2025 happened to me, I may have not found all the events of the ending believable, but now…I believe it and I FELT it. I recommend this to fans of Catherine Newman. This won’t be the last you hear from me on this one.
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"4.5 stars. WOW. wow wow wow wow wow. I was notttt expecting any of that. This book is haunting, it is devastating, it is beautiful, it is heartbreaking, it is inspiring. This is a painful read, but I truly could not put it down. I was hanging onto every single word. This is some of my favorite writing I’ve ever come across, so I will absolutely be reading more from this author. Will be thinking about and talking about this book for years to come. "