My Train Leaves at Three
by Natalie Guerrero
Descriptions
An electric coming-of-age novel that explores grief, family, sexuality, and love as an ambitious young woman from Washington Heights tries to make it on Broadway?by a striking new voice in fiction.How much of yourself are you willing to sacrifice in order to chase your dreams?After her sister Nena?s sudden death, Xiomara, an Afro-Latina singer and actress born and raised in Washington Heights, is numb. With her sister gone, Xiomara is painfully close to thirty, living in a tiny apartment with her ultra-Catholic Puerto Rican mother, and having the same shitty sex with the same shitty men that she?s been entertaining for years. Behind on rent despite two minimum-wage jobs, one of which involves singing show tunes while serving pancakes to tourists at Ellen?s Stardust Diner, Xiomara is bitingly cynical, especially in her grief, and barely treading water.But when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to audition for Manny Santos, the most charismatic director of the moment, falls into her