Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
A Touch of Moonlight
A Touch of Moonlight: A Novel | Yaffa S. Santos
2 posts | 2 read
From the author of A Taste of Sage comes another charming and engrossing novel in which a young woman must navigate her family’s expectations, the demands of her job, a new love, and a secret about her magical identity. Larimar Cintrón works hard at three things: her job as brand manager for Beacon Café, a New York based corporate bakery chain; taking care of her parents and her abuela; and hiding that she’s a ciguapa—a mythical creature of Dominican folklore with long, straight hair and backwards-facing feet. Larimar may only be a ciguapa on full moons, but she feels like an outsider in her family the rest of the month too. Her love of ’90s punk rock music and style further sets her apart. But when her best friend introduces her to Ray, a bakery owner and fellow punk rock lover, Larimar thinks she may have finally found someone with whom she can be her true self. As Beacon’s brand manager, Larimar oversees all new location openings, including its newest store in New Jersey, which could be the project that finally lands her a coveted promotion. But when she discovers the location is right across from Ray’s bakery, Borrachitos, Larimar is torn between impressing her boss and saving Ray’s business. As Larimar continues to grow closer to Ray and the new store’s opening looms, she struggles to hide the truth about herself and her job. But embracing her magical nature may be the only way Larimar can have everything she wants. Witty and poignant, A Touch of Moonlight is a celebration of heritage, culture, and identity—of embracing yourself and finding your place in the world.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
review
amma-keep-reading
Mehso-so

It was meh. But I think it was the narrator.

blurb
kera_11
post image

Larimar is a Dominican American woman who works too much, as if that‘s not enough, she becomes a ciguapa, mythical Dominican creature, every full moon.She finally finds a man she thinks she can share this side of herself with safely, only to to find out he owns the bakery across the street from the chain bakery she‘s helping open.
I loved this book, good balance of romance and family relations/expectations, and fun lore too

2 likes1 stack add