01834cam a2200325 i 4500 2357450710 TxAuBib 20250214120000.0 240611s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781668050460 hardcover 1668050463 hardcover (OCoLC)1438665189 YDX eng rda YDX BDX IG# AZH IUO OCLCO RNL IMT CHY IUK TxAuBib rda Heredia, Alejandro, 1994-, author. Loca [LEASEDBOOK] : a novel / Alejandro Heredia. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. 338 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "It's 1999, and best friends Sal and Charo are striving to hold on to their dreams in a New York determined to grind them down. Sal is a book-loving science nerd trying to grow beyond his dead-end job in a new city, but he's held back by tragic memories from his past in Santo Domingo. Free-spirited Charo is surprised to find herself a mother at twenty-five, partnered with a controlling man, working at the same supermarket for years, her world shrunk to the very domesticity she thought she'd escaped in her old country. When Sal finds love at a gay club one night, both his and Charo's worlds unexpectedly open up to a vibrant social circle that pushes them to reckon with what they owe to their own selves, pasts, futures, and, always, each other"-- Dust jacket flap. 20250214. Dominican Americans Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Gay men Fiction. Motherhood Fiction. Immigrants Fiction. New York (N.Y) Fiction.