The Family She Never Met: A Novel

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Between two worlds, between love and loss, she finally finds her way home. An emotional and intense women's fiction multigenerational story that explores the resilience of three Cuban American women and the price they've all paid for their family. Jessica Russo knows nothing about her mother's family or her Cuban culture. Every time she's asked about it, her mother has shut down. But when the Cuban grandmother she's never met sends her right-hand man, Luis, to offer Jessica the chance to come to Miami and meet her estranged family, she can't help but say yes, even as she knows it will pain her mother. The woman that Jessica meets is nothing like what she expected. Her grandmother is successful, intelligent, determined, and all too willing to take blame for what has happened to cause the estrangement, and, more importantly, to try and set things right. As Jessica spends time with her grandmother in her beautiful island home, she learns about her family's history and what caused the schism between her mother and grandmother. As days with her grandmother turn to weeks, Jessica is determined to find a way to heal her fractured family. And in the end, Jessica might just learn something about herself and what it means to embrace the many facets of her identity.

Author Bio

New York Times and USA Today bestseller CARIDAD PINEIRO is the author of over 50 novels/novellas and has sold over one million books worldwide. Caridad's romances in various genres have been critically acclaimed, and she is currently spreading her wings to embrace new themes with her women's fiction. In 2017, Caridad ghostwrote Snow Falling, the tie-in novel to the successful Jane the Virgin television show. When not writing, Caridad loves to travel, cook, and spend time with family & friends down on the Jersey Shore.