How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER

Angie Cruz, the author of Dominicana, an enthralling new book about a woman who has lost everything except the opportunity to finally share her tale, is the GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist.

Will make you laugh out loud line after line...Cruz shoots and aims for the heart. — The Los Angeles Times

"An endearing portrait of a FIERCE, FUNNY woman." — The Post in Washington

Cara Romero assumed that her whole life will be spent working at the little light manufacturer. However, she is compelled to reenter the workforce for the first time in decades when she loses her job during the Great Recession in her mid-50s. Instead, after meeting with a career counselor, Cara starts to tell her life narrative. 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. We see a battered yet resilient lady as Cara faces her deepest secrets and regrets.

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water is Angie Cruz's most ambitious and heartbreaking book to date; it is structurally complex and emotionally kaleidoscopic, and Cara is a heroine for the ages.