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Author:

Ruiz, Rudy, author.

Title:

The resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez : a novel / Rudy Ruiz.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Blackstone Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

331 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Children of immigrants--United States--Fiction.
Mexican Americans--Fiction.
First loves--Fiction.
Pharmacists--Fiction.
Social classes--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Summary:

Fulgencio Ramirez strives to succeed in America, break a mystical family curse, and win back Carolina Mendelssohn's love thirty years after their doomed youthful romance.
1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting, his nemesis, the husband of Carolina Mendelssohn, has died. Fulgencio strives to succeed in America, break a mystical family curse, and win back Carolina's love after their doomed youthful romance. -- adapted from jacket

ISBN:

1982604611
9781982604615

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1141029267

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)