{"product_id":"levittown-mon-amour-paperback","title":"Levittown Mon Amour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCezanne Cardona\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlejandro Álvarez Nieves\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA freelance journalist who is short three hundred dollars for his father's coffin--and fresh out of ideas. An unemployed man whose last shred of hope revolves around an abandoned couch outside his house. A desperate man who steals a water gun for his child and ends up performing the wrong kind of miracle. This is life in Toa Baja's Levittown, one of the largest suburban projects in the Caribbean. \u003cbr\u003eVulnerable, forlorn, and stuck in the mud of an uncertain future, the characters in these stories lack the resources to make ends meet, yet are rich in grit, tenderness, and the scent of the sea breeze. \u003ci\u003eLevittown Mon Amour\u003c\/i\u003e renders a stirring portrait of the failure of the American dream in Puerto Rico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCezanne Cardona Morales\u003c\/b\u003e is a Puerto Rican writer, professor, and columnist. In 2018 he published \u003ci\u003eLevittown mon amour\u003c\/i\u003e, a short-story collection, and won the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico's Festival de la Palabra and the National Prize of Instituto de Literatura Puertorriqueña. He is also the author of an essay collection, \u003ci\u003eLeer antes de usar\u003c\/i\u003e (Folium, 2024), and a novel, \u003ci\u003eEsto también es una casa\u003c\/i\u003e (Seix Barral, 2025).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlejandro Álvarez Nieves\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, translator, and professor in the Graduate Program in Translation at the University of Puerto Rico. He has published the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eEl proceso traductor\u003c\/i\u003e (Libros AC, 2012; Pulpo, 2025) and \u003ci\u003eQuiebre de Armas\u003c\/i\u003e (Trabalis Editores, 2018), as well as the short story collection \u003ci\u003eGalería de comandos\u003c\/i\u003e (Ediciones Alayubia, 2019). His translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eWorld Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Alejandro published the first English translation of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro's \u003ci\u003eNegras\u003c\/i\u003e in 2022 and his Spanish translation of Ntozake Shange's \u003ci\u003eWild Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e (Atria Books, 2017) earned him the 2018 International Latino Book Award in the Spanish translation category.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67972552556851,"sku":"9798990322493","price":28.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/BezebtUWP9798990322493.webp?v=1794430376","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/levittown-mon-amour-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}