How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Angie Cruz
Cara Romero is 56, recently unemployed, and reporting to a government job program in 1980s New York. The whole novel is just her talking — to her caseworker, across a desk, week after week. It’s funny and sad and textured. Now that I think about it, it’d be a great follow-up read to The Correspondent.
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