Carmen and Grace

Name: Carmen and Grace
Brand: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781837931224
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By Melissa Coss Aquino

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Carmen and Grace follows two cousins, more like sisters, who survive a childhood marked by neglect and addiction in the Bronx. Their lives change when Doña Durka, a powerful matriarch leading an underground drug empire, takes Grace into her home and plays a big role in Carmen’s upbringing. After Durka’s sudden death, Grace aims to expand the business while Carmen seeks to break free from Durka's shadow and the fear that comes with it. This story explores female friendship, ambition, and the idea of found family with both toughness and tenderness.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in gritty contemporary fiction, strong female characters, and stories about complex family bonds and survival in challenging environments.

A female Latinx Godfather drama about two cousins lured into the underground drug trade at a young age and the inextricable ties that bind them, as one woman seeks power and the other seeks a way out.

A powerful drama about two cousins lured into the underground drug trade at a young age and the inextricable ties that bind them, as one woman seeks power and the other seeks a way out.

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Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls – more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction. For too long, all they had was each other.

That is, until Doña Durka swept into their lives and changed everything, taking Grace into her home and playing an outsize role in Carmen’s upbringing too.

But Durka is more than a beneficent force in their Bronx neighbourhood. She’s also the leader of an underground drug empire, a larger-than-life matriarch who understands the importance of taking what power she can in a world too often ruled by violent men.

So when Durka dies suddenly, Carmen and Grace’s lives are thrown into chaos. Grace has been primed to take over and has grand plans to expand the business, but Carmen is ready to move on – from Durka’s shadow, and from always looking over her shoulder in fear.

As tough and tender as its main characters, Carmen and Grace is a devastatingly wise and intimate story about the bonds of female friendship, ambition, and found family.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781837931224

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Apollo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 400

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Melissa Coss Aquino

About the Author

Melissa Coss Aquino is a Puerto Rican writer from the Bronx. She received her MFA from the City College of New York, CUNY, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, CUNY in English. She currently works as an Associate Professor in the English department at Bronx Community College, CUNY. She is a proud VONA, AROHO, and Hedgebrook alumna. This is her first novel.