Tell It to Me Singing

A Novel

De: Tita Ramirez

Narrado por: Yareli Arizmendi, Frankie Corzo

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 listeners 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.

©2024 Tita Ramirez (P)2024 Simon & Schuster Audio

Too repetitive

I became bored with the repetitive story. It took too long to get to the point.

Best book I've listened to in a long time!

Tell it to me Singing is a rich and wonderful book. The characters are complex and the prose is beautiful. The narrators are wonderful. I simultaneously wanted to find out what happened AND wanted to slow down the book so it wouldn't end. A true joy.