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The Family She Never Met: A Novel Paperback – February 1, 2022

by Caridad Pineiro (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
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An emotional and intense women's fiction multigenerational story that explores the resilience of three Cuban American women and the price they've all paid for their family.

Jessica Russo knows nothing about her mother's family or her Cuban culture. Every time she's asked about it, her mother has shut down. But when the Cuban grandmother she's never met sends her right-hand man, Luis, to offer Jessica the chance to come to Miami and meet her estranged family, she can't help but say yes, even as she knows it will pain her mother.

The woman that Jessica meets is nothing like what she expected. Her grandmother is successful, intelligent, determined, and all too willing to take the blame for what has happened to cause the estrangement, and, more importantly, to try and set things right. As Jessica spends time with her grandmother in her beautiful island home, she learns about her family's history and what caused the schism between her mother and grandmother.

As days with her grandmother turn to weeks, Jessica is determined to find a way to heal her fractured family. And in the end, Jessica might just learn something about herself and what it means to embrace the many facets of her identity.

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  1. Print length
    304 pages
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    English
  3. Publisher
    Sourcebooks Casablanca
  4. Publication date
    February 1, 2022
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.76 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1728249465
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1728249469
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"Piñeiro (What Happens in Summer) balances swoon-worthy romance with complex family drama in this heartfelt contemporary about love and forgiveness." Publishers Weekly

"Readers drawn to good romance and family novels will enjoy reading about Jessica and her estranged grandmother from Cuba. For cultural insights as well as the healing of generational rifts, pick up a copy of THE FAMILY SHE NEVER MET. There's something so refreshing about meeting a family member full of surprises. This is a story to savor." - Linda Bond, @auntiesbooks

"The Family She Never Met is a story of love and family, and how pain and loss can linger and continue to wound. It is also a story of healing and forgiveness, written by someone who is able to describe the joy and sorrow experienced. Caridad Pinero's story brings to life a family's sacrifices and the impacts they have on the generations that follow. Her writing is layered and descriptive, and her characterizations captivating. A wholly fantastic read." Fedora Chen, BookBub Reviewer

"Absorbing, romantic, and heartfelt! The Family She Never Met is an uplifting, engaging tale...The prose is vivid and rich. The characters are multi-layered, torn, and sympathetic. And the plot is a well-crafted, heartwarming tale full of mystique, heartbreak, familial drama, secrets, history, culture, hard work, courage, forgiveness, self-discovery, hope, romance, and the struggles faced by Cubans under Castro rule to endure oppression, rebellion, economic instability, and forced exilement." Zoe CAGB, WBTBBookReviews

About the Author

NY Times and USA Today Bestseller Caridad Pineiro is the author of nearly 50 novels/novellas and has sold over one million books worldwide. Caridad writes romantic suspense, military romance, contemporary romance, paranormal romance, and vampire suspense. Caridad is also a Jersey Girl who loves to travel, cook, & spend time with family & friends. Caridad writes dark and sexy novels and novellas for those who live to love on the edge. Her sweet, but still naughty side, Charity Pineiro, writes contemporary romances packed with emotion and humor.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sourcebooks Casablanca
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 1, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1728249465
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1728249469
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.76 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings

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Caridad Pineiro is a transplanted Long Island girl who has fallen in love with the Jersey Shore. When Caridad isn’t taking long strolls along the boardwalk, she’s also a NY Times and USA Today bestselling author with over a million romance novels sold worldwide. Caridad is passionate about writing and helping others explore and develop their skills as writers. She is a founding member of the Liberty States Fiction Writers and has presented workshops at the RT Book Club Convention, Romance Writers of America National Conference as well as various writing organizations throughout the country. You can connect with Caridad at www.caridad.com. You can also find Caridad on:

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The Family She Never Met by Caridad Pineiro Contemporary romance with intermittent passages from the 1950’s through present for background and character memories. Jessie Russo grew up with the Italian side of her father’s family, but she knows nothing of her Cuban history on her mothers side. The subject was taboo until she meets Luis, her maternal grandmother’s right hand man. He’s in New York to try to reconcile the family before it’s too late. It’s an emotional and devastating time of crisis as the political scene changed in Cuba and the family was torn apart. The story starts current day and we get the history in memories and back flashes from Carmen and her daughter Lara. Jessie plays intermediary between the generations with the hep of Luis who has worked for the family business in Miami since he was young. Luis and Jessie end up spending a lot of time together as they help work through the emotional minefields. A journey across time and family. Tears, cheers, and love.
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  • Christine Melanie Benson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Super satisfying modern-day fairy tale with a twist or two :)
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2022
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    I found Caridad Pineiro's new book The Family She Never Met to be an extremely satisfying read, which checked all the boxes for intriguing romantic hero, empowered modern female protagonist, heartfelt family relationships, and exotic vistas.

    This book involves complex multi-generational family issues, with a fiery romance thrown in. The heroine, Jessica, is an intriguing character who certainly bucks some traditional stereotypes but is nevertheless accessible and sympathetic. Things quickly heat up with her family lawyer, Luis, and the passion, honor, and ardor are well-painted and portrayed.

    The novel is set in Miami and Brooklyn, with flashback scenes to Cuba, the native country of Jessica's mother's family. I knew little about Cuba's history apart from the basics, and it was educational and often moving to read in more detail about its history. As a reader, it was fun to hop among these various geographical spots, which each offered a pleasant contrast to the others.

    I won't give away the ending, but I enjoyed that even though I sometimes had some sense of how certain events were going to play out in the various plot lines, the book surprised me with how and when certain developments came about.

    In short, I would recommend this book to anyone seeking romance, passion, or escape, with just enough relational realism to grab your emotions and perhaps cause you to reconsider your own family trauma in a new light of forgiveness and grace.
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  • MSV
    5.0 out of 5 stars Con Mucho Gusto
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2022
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    With much pleasure! This is how much I enjoyed this book, especially the use of Spanish words, historical references, beautiful descriptions. Gracias
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  • Lacy
    4.0 out of 5 stars love, forgiveness, home, family, cultural identity, and a family’s exile coming to an end
    Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2022
    Frankie Corzo radiantly narrates Caridad Piñeiro’s The Family She Never Met. Corzo’s narration and Piñeiro’s storytelling vividly bring to life this emotional and compelling tale of three generations of Cuban women reconciling the pain of the past from the Cuban exile to Miami and its impacts on their culture and family and reuniting their family with heartfelt emotion, excitement, sorrow, respect for culture and history, and a profound sense of wonder, discovery, and burgeoning hope. Piñeiro sets the novel primarily in the present but uses flashbacks to explore the exile of Jessica’s grandmother Carmen and her family from Cuba and the pain that it causes her family, especially her oldest daughter, Jessica’s mother. She immerses readers in Cuban culture with vivid imagery and description that appeals to the senses as Jessica and Luis explore the city of Miami, and she partakes of its pastries, delicacies, and regional meals. Their scenes are sexy, funny, and intimate and the experience unexpectedly changes both. Jessica’s interactions with her grandmother are intense, emotional, and beautifully written, as are the scenes with her and her mother. I love how Piñeiro makes Jessica’s trip an immersive experience by writing Cubano Spanish into the narrative. Like Jessica, the readers must dive headfirst into the Cuban Miami cultural experience.

    The Family She Never Met is an emotional listen about a young woman whose mother walked away from her Cuban family 30 years ago and never looked back. As a result, her daughter Jessica Russo knows nothing about her Cuban culture or mother's family because her mother refuses to talk about it. Finally, however, she can visit Miami and meet and spend time with her estranged Cuban grandmother and family after her grandmother contacts her through her protégé, Luis. Although she knows it will hurt her mother, it’s something she must do for herself to fully discover who she is and embrace both sides of her identity—Cuban and Italian.

    Corzo’s narration effortlessly captures Piñeiro’s beautiful and compelling story, emotional beats, and strong, intriguing, and deftly developed characters. Her narration nicely differentiates between characters with voices that fit the characters’ ages, genders, personalities, moods, and emotions. She narrates scenes where the characters speak Cuban Spanish with a beautiful, authentic accent—one of my favorite things about the book. Her Italian accent is just as good. Her narration for Jessica’s mother as a child and grownup is great, capturing her terror, isolation, loneliness, sense of betrayal, denial, and anger. I couldn’t imagine anyone else narrating Piñeiro’s novel with the same skill or depth of emotion.

    A poignant, insightful story suffused in history, culture, loss, love, and healing, The Family She Never Met explores themes of forgiveness, home, family, cultural identity, and a family’s exile coming to an end.

    Advanced review copy provided by Dreamscape Media via Netgalley for review.
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  • daschultz
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good narration but a somewhat predictable story
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2022
    The title is very apropo as this book is all about the side of Jessica Russo’s family that she never met.

    Jessica’s mother has been estranged from her mother, Carmen, who lives in Miami. She left when she was a very young woman and has refused any efforts to reunite the family. When Jessica has asked for her reasons, she would give none.

    As the book opens, Camen, wants very much to meet her granddaughter Jessica. She sends her “right hand man”, Luis to visit Jessica and extend an invitation to come to Miami and meet her extended family. Jessica has always been interested in her Cuban heritage. She decides this is the time to go and possibly heal her divided family.

    When she arrives she marvels at the beautiful estate that her grandmother has along with a very successful company.

    The book is really entirely about her connecting to this side of her family. She finds that she really enjoys being with her grandmother, meeting her aunts and cousins. Her grandmother shares photos of the family through the years which help Jessica to understand all of the familial connections.

    The story for me was a little bit too predictable. With the addition of a romance that we could all see coming, I was left feeling that I had expected more.

    I have always loved historical fiction and I was hoping to learn more about Cuba. We do see glimpses into Cuban life when Castro arrived, through the eyes of her grandmother. However the main focus of the book is about mother-daughter relationships, forgiveness and new beginnings for this large family.

    I would call this family drama and not really historical fiction. There just wasn’t that much about life in Cuba and the revolution.

    **I was fortunate to receive both the EARC and the audiobook for this novel. I found that the audiobook brought more life to the book. The narration was good and I enjoyed the different voices.

    I received an ARC of this novel from the publisher through NetGalley.
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  • J D
    5.0 out of 5 stars A riveting read.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2022
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    I was caught up in the story from the very beginning & was sad to see it end!
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