Angie Cruz Teaches How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

The Book Case

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Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Once again it was a title that caught our eye, leading us to a the book that was even more intriguing than the title. The book is How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. The author is Angie Cruz. The book is a fascinating character study of Cara Romero, a Dominican immigrant who came to this country more than 25 years ago. She needs a job. There are 12 chapters— each a transcription of one of Cara’s meetings with a professional job counselor. You come to know Cara - or do you really? As she talks to the counselor and tells her/him not just about herself but about the immigrant community of which she is a part? A reader, we believe, will thoroughly enjoy getting to know Cara. A listener to The Book Case will enjoy getting to know Angie Cruz. Instead of an independent bookstore this week we talk to each other about books we’ve read this year that we loved, but might not have been suited to a podcast. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz Dominicana by Angie Cruz Let It Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz Soledad by Angie Cruz Widow Basquiat by Jennifer Clement Incidents in the Life of a Slave by Harriet Jacobs The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin The Lost Kings by Tyrell Johnson The Guest List by Lucy Foley Head Full of Ghosts by Paul G. Tremblay Full Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Robert E Lee: A Life by Allen C. Guelzo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.7	Our two-generation, two-gender podcasts on the subject of books, and today, I think we have a book not only with a great title, but it's a great read.
0:53.4	It's called How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water.
0:56.5	And one of the reasons that I do this podcast, because this happened long before we went on
1:01.3	the air, every time my father picks up a book, and sometimes I don't even know where they
1:06.5	come from, and he falls in love with it.
1:08.2	And this happened with this, this is happiness, which you guys remember from our second episode, he'll read a book and he'll say, oh, you've got to read this.
1:14.8	And I have to pick it up within 24 hours or I start getting nagged because he wants to talk about it.
1:19.7	And so he called me up and said, you have to read how not to drown in a glass of water by Angie Cruz. So I'll let him give you his first impressions, and then I'll
1:28.9	tell you why I think it's such an exciting book. Well, it's an interesting approach in this book.
1:34.4	You get in the mind of the central protagonist. Kara Romero is the protagonist. She is a Dominican
1:42.4	immigrant to the United States. She had been working for 20 years
1:46.3	in a factory or plant. I forgot. But anyway, she lost her job. And she thinks she wants another job.
1:53.4	And a program in her community sends her to a job counselor, and she has 12 sessions with the job
1:59.9	counselor. Each session is a different chapter.
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