卡拉-罗梅罗以为她会在小灯厂工作一辈子。但是，当她50多岁时，在经济大衰退中失去了工作，她被迫重新进入就业市场，这是几十年来的第一次。在就业顾问的安排下，卡拉开始讲述她的人生故事。在12个疗程中，卡拉讲述了她动荡的爱情，她与邻居露露和妹妹安吉拉交替出现的尖锐和爱的关系，她与债务、城市化和损失的斗争，以及最终，她和她疏远的儿子费尔南多之间到底发生了什么。当卡拉面对她最黑暗的秘密和遗憾时，我们看到一个被生活冲击但仍然充满斗志的女人。
在结构上具有创造性，在情感上具有万花筒效应，《如何不淹死在一杯水里》是安吉-克鲁兹迄今为止最雄心勃勃和最感人的小说，卡拉是一个时代的女英雄。
Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of fight.
Structurally inventive and emotionally kaleidoscopic, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz’s most ambitious and moving novel yet, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.
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