Jeanine Cummins Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

What does it mean to call a place home? From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeanine Cummins comes a deeply felt multigenerational family story On her wedding day in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1968, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón has mild misgivings, but she marries Peter Brennan Jr. anyway in a blaze of romantic optimism. She has no way of knowing how dramatically her life will change when she uproots her young family to start over in the American Midwest, unleashing a fleet of disappointments. In the 1980s, against the backdrop of her mother's isolation in St. Louis, Missouri, Rafaela's daughter, Ruth, wants only to belong. Eager to fit in, Ruth lets go of her language, habits, and childhood memories of Puerto Rico. It's not until decades later when Ruth's own daughter, Daisy, returns to San Juan that her mother and grandmother begin to truly reflect on the choices that have come to define their lives. When a hurricane ravages the island in 2023, leaving Daisy critically injured, Rafaela and Ruth return to the city where their story began. As they gather at Daisy's bedside, we follow them back into the moments that brought them to this point: We watch as they come of age, fall in love, take risks, and contend with all the heartbreaks, triumphs, and reversals of fortune--both good and bad--that make up a meaningful life. As old memories come to light, so do buried secrets, leaving everyone in the family wondering exactly where it is that they belong. A striking, resonant examination of marriage, family, and identity, Speak to Me of Home is ultimately a story of mothers and daughters that asks: How can three women who share geography and genetics have such wildly different ideas of where they come from? And, more important, can they discover a common language to find their way back home?

Domov nie je miesto. Je to príbeh, ktorý si o sebe rozprávame. Rafaela si v roku 1968 v záchvate romantiky vezme muža, ktorým si nie je celkom istá – a týmto rozhodnutím sa začne jej cesta z rodného Portorika na americký Stredozápad. Namiesto nového začiatku však prichádza samota a sklamanie… Jej dcéra Ruth sa v osemdesiatych rokoch snaží za každú cenu zapadnúť – a tak sa vzdá jazyka, zvykov aj spomienok na detstvo v portorickom meste San Juan. Až o desaťročia neskôr, keď sa Ruthina dcéra Daisy vracia na rodný ostrov, musia tri generácie žien čeliť minulosti, rozhodnutiam, ktoré ich formovali, aj otázke, čo pre ne vlastne znamená slovo „domov“. Rozprávaj mi o domove je silný príbeh o matkách a dcérach, o láske, odlúčení, odvahe a túžbe niekam patriť. Jeanine Cumminsová v ňom píše o domove ako o mieste, ktoré si nesieme v srdci – a ktoré si niekedy musíme znova vybojovať.

Lydia Quixano Perez lives in Acapulco, where she runs a bookstore and cherishes her son, Luca, and her journalist husband. Despite the encroaching dangers of drug cartels, her life is relatively comfortable. Lydia fills her store with beloved books, but everything changes when a man named Javier, who is charming and erudite, enters her shop. Unbeknownst to her, he is the leader of a brutal drug cartel. When Lydia's husband publishes a revealing profile of Javier, their lives are shattered. Forced to escape, Lydia and her eight-year-old son find themselves fleeing their middle-class existence. They embark on a perilous journey as migrants, riding la bestia—trains heading north toward the United States, the only place beyond Javier's reach. Along the way, they encounter countless others also fleeing their pasts, each with their own stories of loss and hope. As Lydia navigates this harrowing experience, she begins to question what they are truly running toward. This gripping narrative is filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity, leaving readers profoundly affected by Lydia's journey and the realities faced by countless migrants.

A devastating true crime account of a murder that touched her own family, from the author of AMERICAN DIRT

Lydia urobila v živote jedinú, no o to fatálnejšiu chybu. Vydala sa za investigatívneho novinára, ktorý mal odvahu zverejniť informácie o mafiánskych praktikách. A to sa v Mexiku, kde životy ľudí ovládajú gangy, mafie a drogové kartely, jednoducho neodpúšťa. Mafia vyzabíja celú rodinu, zachráni sa len Lýdia so svojím osemročným synom. V zúfalstve naskočia na vlak a utekajú z nebezpečnej krajiny. Proti svojej vôli sa stávajú migrantmi a na vlastnej koži pociťujú tvrdú realitu nelegálneho prevádzačstva. Je to jednoducho strhujúci príbeh!

'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn Parkhurst After the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal ancestor Ginny, and is shocked to read a story of murder in her family history. With the famine upon her, Ginny Doyle fled from Ireland to America, but not all of her family made it. What happened during those harrowing years, and why does Ginny call herself a killer? Is Majella genetically fated to be a bad mother, despite the fierce tenderness she feels for her baby? Determined to uncover the truth of her heritage and her own identity, Majella sets out to explore Ginny's past - and discovers surprising truths about her family and ultimately, herself.

Ireland, 1959: Young Christy Hurley is a Pavee gypsy, traveling with his father and extended family from town to town, carrying all their worldly possessions in their wagons. Christy carries with him a burden of guilt as well, haunted by the story of his mother's death in childbirth. The peripatetic life is the only one Christy has ever known, but when his grandfather dies, everything changes. His father decides to settle down temporarily in a town where Christy and his cousin can attend mass and receive proper schooling. But they are still treated as outsiders. As Christy's exposure to a different life causes him to question who he is and where he belongs, the answer may lie with an old newspaper photograph and a long-buried family secret that could change his life forever...