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Title The waves take you home : a novel / María Alejandra, Barrios Vélez.
Author Barrios Vélez, María Alejandra, author.
Publication Info. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2024]
©2024
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 North Orange  FIC BAR    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  FIC BAR    Checked Out
Edition First edition.
Description 318 pages ; 23 cm
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Summary In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn't approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for herself, on her terms. But when her grandmother suddenly dies, everything changes. After years of being on her own in NYC, Violeta finds herself on a plane back to Colombia, accompanied at all times by the ghost of her grandmother who is sending her messages and signs, to find she is the heir of the failing family restaurant, the very one Abuela told her to run from in the first place. The journey leads her to rediscover her home, her grandmother, and even the flame of an old love.
Subject Women -- Colombia -- Barranquilla -- Fiction.
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Restaurants -- Colombia -- Barranquilla -- Family -- Fiction.
Colombian Americans -- Fiction.
Barranquilla (Colombia) -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Ghost stories.
Colombian Americans -- Fiction.
Hispanic American women -- Fiction.
Ghost stories.
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Restaurants -- Fiction.
Genre Magic realist fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Romance fiction.
Ghost stories.
ISBN 9781662513954 (hardcover) : $28.99
166251395X (hardcover)
9781662513947 (softcover)
1662513941 (softcover)