When the de La Cruz Family Danced - Softcover

This extraordinary novel illustrates a family's long journey toward making peace--with the world, with the family, and with individual selves. Miscolta is a pitch-perfect prose stylist and a passionately empathetic creator: she savors sentence-making and attends to the all-important nuanced moments between people. This chronicle of a family is beautifully observed and heart-rendingly told, and these characters will linger long after you've closed the book. I feel blessed to have met this family and to have made the journey with them.
-- Antonya Nelson, author of Bound

In her deft debut novel, Donna Miscolta presents a clarifying vision of post-immigration America. Longings acted upon or stifled, secrets disclosed or withheld, connections made or frayed--Miscolta shows that the extended de la Cruz family is a mirror of the things that bind us and keep us apart. When the de la Cruz Family Danced may be one particular family's aching story, but the novel also has a largeness that encompasses the evolving formal history of the novel, the history of family life in America, and the continuing story of how immigrants carry the burdens of the past into the strange present. Miscolta's novel is intricate, tender, and elegantly written--a necessary novel for our times. -- Rick Barot, author of Want

Miscolta is a pitch-perfect prose stylist and a passionately empathetic creator: she savors sentence-making and attends to the all-important nuanced moments between people.  --Antonya Nelson, author of Bound

In her deft debut novel, Donna Miscolta presents a clarifying vision of post-immigration America. Miscolta's novel is intricate, tender, and elegantly written--a necessary novel for our times.  --Rick Barot, author of Want

A smoothly written debut that sways between the Philippines and the U.S., between the present and past, and between the secrets and hard truths of its compelling characters.  --Cristina Garcia, author of The Lady Matador's Hotel

When the de la Cruz Family Danced is my kind of book--characters I fell in love with, prose that made me swoon, dialogue that rang true. --Noel Alumit, author of Talking to the Moon and Letters to Montgomery Clift

When the de la Cruz Family Danced introduces a wise, warm, funny and big-hearted writer to the world. This book is a delight.  -- Rebecca Brown, author of American Romances