Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramirez
Tell It to Me Singing by Tita
Ramirez
English | 2024 | General Fiction
A Cuban American family is sent
into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several
shocking secrets to her daughter before undergoing heart surgery in this tender
and twisty debut novel.
Monica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments
before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery, her mother confesses a
long-held secret: Monica’s father is not the man who raised her. But when her
mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes, Monica doesn’t know what
to believe—whether the confession was real or just a channeling of the
telenovela her mother watches nightly.
In her despair, Monica wants to speak with only one person: her
ex-boyfriend of five years, Manny. She can’t help but worry, though, what this
says about her relationship with her fiancé and father of her unborn child.
Monica’s search for the truth leads her to a new understanding
of the past: the early eighties when her parents arrived from Cuba on the
famous Mariel boatlift, and the tumultuous seventies, a decade after Castro’s
takeover, when some people were still secretly fighting his regime—people like
her mother and the man she claims is Monica’s real father. Tell It to Me
Singing is a story that takes readers from Miami to Cuba to the jungles of
Costa Rica and, along the way, explores the question of how and to whom we
belong, how a life is built, and how we know when we’re home.