Beschreibung
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion is married off to an older man in order to get her family out of the Dominican Republic and into the US. On New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. Lonely and miserable, Ana soon hatches a reckless plan to escape. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020.