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| Grove Press |
“You just want to go
deep enough to arrive at that moment when your thoughts stop
and all you feel
is the water and your heartbeat.”
THE VEINS OF THE OCEAN is not a novel that is
easy to put down or to forget once finished. Both a tragedy and a romance,
Patricia Engel’s second novel stuns and warms the reader in equal measure.
From Florida to Cuba to Colombia, our heroine – and the reader! –
are taken on a hard journey to solace and redemption. This is a deep novel with
lots of under currents, and just like the swimmer who sheds her clothing in
preparation of jumping into the water, so does our heroine shed her past and
her guilt, and dives into the ocean to cleanse her soul and spring forth reborn
and renewed.
SUMMARY:
For seven years, Reina Castillo visits her brother Carlito on death row
for throwing his unfaithful girlfriend’s daughter off a bridge. History had repeated itself, because the same
thing had happened to Carlito when he was a child, but he lived. When her
brother commits suicide after receiving a life sentence, Reina escapes to
Florida hoping to forget and be forgotten. There she meets Nesto Cadena, a
Cuban refugee who misses the children he left behind. Together the lovers learn
to shed their guilt and find solace in the beauty and power of the ocean, and
in each other.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Patricia Engel is the author of THE VEINS OF
THE OCEAN, which was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her other novels
include, VIDA and IT’S NOT LOVE, IT’S JUST PARIS. Patricia’s novels have won
numerous awards including the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction
Award, Best Book of the Year by NPR, Independent Publisher Book Award and
International Latino Book Award. Born to
Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey, Patricia currently lives in Miami.
Learn more about her at www.patriciaengel.com.
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