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Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction her writing compared to Gabriel Garca Mrquezs by The Boston Globe Now with humor passion and intensity she reveals the proud members of the Coln family and the dreams love and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future

Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband Santo and their two children Bobby and Dallas She works as a home aide and at night hides unopened bills from the credit card company where Santo wont find them when he returns from driving his livery cab

When Santos mother dies and his father Don Chan comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years with the Colns nothing will ever be the same Don Chan remembers fighting together with Santo in the revolution against Trujillos cruel regime the promise of who his son might have been had he not fallen under Esperanzas spell

Let It Rain Coffee is a sweeping novel about love loss family and the elusive nature of memory and desire