Tell It to Me Singing

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Mnica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a long-held secret: Mnicas father is not the man who raised her. But when her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, Mnica doesnt know what to believewhether the confession was real or just a channeling of the telenovela her mother watches nightly.

In her despair, Mnica wants to speak with only one person: her ex-boyfriend of five years, Manny. She cant help but worry, though, what this says about her relationship with her fianc and father of her unborn child.

Mnicas search for the truth leads her to a new understanding of the pastthe early 80s, when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous 70s, a decade after Castros takeover, when some people were still secretly fighting his regimepeople like her mother and the man she claims is Mnicas real father.

Tell It to Me Singing is so fantastic and funny, so full of life, and so full of genuine heart that, like your favorite binge-worthy show, you'll have trouble pulling yourself away (Cristina Henrquez, author of The Great Divide). This rich portrait (Kirkus Reviews) of a family takes readers from Miami to Cuba to the jungles of Costa Rica and, along the way, explores the question of how and to whom we belong, how a life is built, and how we know were home.

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Ramrezs tale of family and love and political fallout truly brings the drama a charming novel in which the Spanish flows naturally, and family affection flows warmly. Booklist

Author Bio

Tita Ramrez grew up in Miami, the daughter of a Cuban exile and a Kentucky native. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in LitHub, The Normal School, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and their two sons, and teaches creative writing at Elon University. Tell It to Me Singing is her debut novel.