3 Novels by Julia Amante
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Overview: Julia Amante had the misfortune of growing up away from the extended family that is so valued in the Latin culture, but missed out on very little of what it means to be Argentine. Asados were sacred meals shared together on weekends.
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Evenings at the Argentine Club (2009): Victor and Jaqueline Torres imagined moving to the U.S. would bring happiness and prosperity; instead, they found a world of frustration.
While Victor put long hours into his restaurant business, Jaqui devoted her life to her daughters, until they grew up and moved on. Even their eldest, Victoria, is torn trying to reconcile being the perfect Argentine daughter and an independent American woman.
Antonio and Lucia Orteli face the same realities, especially when their only son Eric leaves their close-knit Argentine community in pursuit of his own dreams. When Eric unexpectedly shows up at the Argentine Club—the heart of the Argentine community in southern California—he starts a series of events that will bring these two families closer than ever.
New relationships are formed and old ones are put to the test, as everyone must learn how to balance different cultures—and different dreams—without hurting those they love.
Say You’ll Be Mine (2011): In this heartwarming novel of family and resilience, a young woman—newly named the guardian of her cousin’s children—must decide if she’s willing to take a chance on loving three tiny strangers, who may change her life in ways she’s never imagined.
Isabel Gallegos is only a handshake away from living her dream life. After years of putting everyone else’s needs before her own, she’s selling her family’s vineyard and moving to a quiet cottage on the California coast. But just as she’s about to seal the deal, a letter arrives from Argentina with shocking news: Her beloved cousin has died and Isabel is now the sole guardian of three young children.
Still holding on to her dream, Isabel travels to Argentina. There she meets little Julieta, the cherubic baby of the family; eight-year-old Adelmo, as hot-tempered as his sister is sweet; and ten-year-old Sandra, whose heart-shaped face and quiet confidence remind Isabel so much of her late cousin. She tells herself to let the children go, to leave them in the care of their grandmother or perhaps their long-lost uncle who abruptly reappears. Or should she listen to her ex-husband, who is suddenly at her side, urging her to give the children—and him—a chance?
This Is Now (2021): A heartfelt journey of a woman who returns to the childhood home she’s avoided to care for her dying mother and hopefully heals herself in the process…
Workaholic, control-freak Margarita is competent, intelligent, and extremely independent. A third year medical student, she is completely focused on becoming a doctor. But when her sister calls with news their mother’s cancer diagnosis is terminal, Margarita returns home to small-town California, yet dreads facing the dysfunctional family she left behind.
Craving peace and security, Margarita always felt like she didn’t belong in a such a large, loud, drama-filled family. And when her mother and father’s marriage fell apart, Margarita realized she never wanted to feel that kind of pain again and has avoided getting close to anyone since, worried she had no idea how to truly show love or make a relationship last.
Unable to escape her feelings of inadequacy, she’s become self-destructive–working and drinking too much. Yet there’s one man who, years ago, broke through the protective wall around her heart, one man whose steady friendship never wavered, even when she didn’t deserve it. Now facing him and their unresolved feelings is possibly most terrifying part of going home.
If Margarita has any hope of healing, she must learn to accept the past and start loving herself again. If she can’t, she could lose everything, her career, her mother, and the only man she’s ever loved.
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