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The mortifications : a novel

Palacio, Derek, 1982- author

Overview

\"In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boatlift. Uxbal Encarnaciâon--father, husband, political insurgent--refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar heat, Soledad pushes further north into the stark, wintry landscape of Hartford, Connecticut. There, in the long shadow of their estranged patriarch, now just a distant memory, the exiled mother and her children begin a process of growth and transformation. But years later, just as the Encarnaciâons settle into their new ways of life, Cuba calls them back. Uxbal is alive, and waiting.\"--Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: Tim Duggan Books
• Subject: Cubans Fiction. / Mariel Boatlift, 1980 Fiction. / Immigrants Cultural assimilation Fiction. / Separated parents Fiction. / Hartford (Conn.) Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781101905715

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3616.A3384 M67 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE