She has to get to Daisy immediately. And here is a monster in her path.'
It is a Tuesday evening in June when Ruth receives the phone call that all parents dread.
Her daughter Daisy has been hit by a car during a deadly storm in Puerto Rico.
How Ruth wishes she could tell Daisy she loves her. That she is sorry her own muddy
feelings about Daisy's move to San Juan caused them to fight. What a waste of precious
breath.
Instinctively, it's her mother, Rafaela, Ruth wants to turn to. Rafaela whose own
memories of growing up in Puerto Rico are becoming ever more vivid, as have her
sudden flashes of forgetfulness.
Can Rafaela close the gap between her daughter and granddaughter?
Can she bring them home, before it's too late?
Author Biography
Jeanine Cummins is the author of AMERICAN DIRT, which has sold over 3.5 million copies
globally, and has been translated into 37 languages, the novels THE OUTSIDE BOY, THE
CROOKED BRANCH and the true crime work A RIP IN HEAVEN, all of which are published
by Tinder Press. AMERICAN DIRT was selected for Oprah's Book Club and the Richard
and Judy Book Club and was a no. 1 New York Times bestseller, and reached no. 2 in the
Sunday Times bestseller lists. She lives in New York with her husband and two children