An “utterly unforgettable” (Kevin Wilson New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See
Here ) debut novel about a Cuban American family sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch
confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter. Mónica Campo is pregnant
with her first child when moments before being wheeled into emergency heart surgery her
mother confesses a long-held secret: Mónica’s father is not the man who raised her. But when
her mother wakes up and begins having delusional episodes Mónica doesn’t know what to
believe—whether the confession was real or just a channeling of the telenovela her mother
watches nightly. In her despair Mónica wants to speak with only one person: her ex-boyfriend
of five years Manny. She can’t help but worry though what this says about her relationship
with her fiancé and father of her unborn child. Mónica’s search for the truth leads her to a
new understanding of the past—the early ’80s when her parents arrived from Cuba on the famous
Mariel boatlift and the tumultuous ’70s a decade after Castro’s takeover when some people
were still secretly fighting his regime—people like her mother and the man she claims is
Mónica’s real father. Tell It to Me Singing is “so fantastic and funny so full of life and
so full of genuine heart that like your favorite binge-worthy show you'll have trouble
pulling yourself away” (Cristina Henríquez author of The Great Divide ). This “rich portrait”
( Kirkus Reviews ) of a family takes readers from Miami to Cuba to the jungles of Costa Rica
and along the way explores the question of how and to whom we belong how a life is built
and how we know we’re home.
