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The Family She Never Met

A Novel

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An emotional and intense women's fiction multigenerational story that explores the resilience of three Cuban American women and the price they've all paid for their family.

Jessica Russo knows nothing about her mother's family or her Cuban culture. Every time she's asked about it, her mother has shut down. But when the Cuban grandmother she's never met sends her right-hand man, Luis, to offer Jessica the chance to come to Miami and meet her estranged family, she can't help but say yes, even as she knows it will pain her mother.

The woman that Jessica meets is nothing like what she expected. Her grandmother is successful, intelligent, determined, and all too willing to take the blame for what has happened to cause the estrangement, and, more importantly, to try and set things right. As Jessica spends time with her grandmother in her beautiful island home, she learns about her family's history and what caused the schism between her mother and grandmother.

As days with her grandmother turn to weeks, Jessica is determined to find a way to heal her fractured family. And in the end, Jessica might just learn something about herself and what it means to embrace the many facets of her identity.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 15, 2021
      Piñeiro (What Happens in Summer) balances swoon-worthy romance with complex family drama in this heartfelt contemporary about love and forgiveness. Sauve, loyal Luis Torres, president of Guerreiro Enterprises, shows up unannounced at Jessica Russo’s Brooklyn shop with an invitation for Jessica to meet her estranged Cuban grandmother, Carmen Guerreiro, and the rest of the Guerreiro clan in Miami. Jessica had long given up hope that she’d get to know her mother’s side of the family, as every time the Cuban matriarch came up, her mother would shut down the conversation. Now the determined Jessica seizes the chance to learn about her Cuban heritage and get the answers she’s always wanted about what happened between her mother and her grandmother. But Jessica isn’t expecting her charming tour guide to steal her heart along the way. The fluid pace and family confrontation grip readers and make it easy to forgive a slightly overzealous and awkward narrator. Fans of multicultural love stories will enjoy rooting for Jessica’s happily ever after. Agent: Michelle Grajkowski 3 Seas Literary.

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