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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...

"One hundred years after the shipwreck of the Valbanera, known tohistory as the 'poor man's Titanic,' Mara Denis gets an assignment to report on the Canary Islands, where her ancestors lived before they moved to Cuba. Unexpectedly, she discovers that the grandmother her mother cherished was listed among the dead of the Valbanera, years before Mara's mother was even born. This fateful twist changes everything Mara thought she knew about her family...

Tras la muerte de su querida abuela, una escritora estadounidense viaja a La Habana, donde descubre las raíces de su identidad y desentierra un secreto familiar oculto desde la Revolución. La Habana, 1958. Elisa Pérez, hija de un barón del azúcar, pertenece a la alta sociedad cubana y vive protegida de la creciente inestabilidad del país, hasta que se embarca en un romance clandestino con un apasionado revolucionario. Después del triunfo de...

The story opens in contemporary Miami, where a young Cuban woman has for years been searching in vain for details of her birth mother. All she knows is that her mother delivered her into the hands of her grandfather, who fled Havana for Los Angeles with baby in tow. The quest for her mother seems hopeless until a mysterious parcel containing writings and photographs arrives in the mail. Along with several trips back to Havana, the daughter fits the...