The mortifications : a novel

Palacio, Derek 1982- (author.).

Summary: In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boat-lift. Uxbal Encarnación--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.

Item details

ISBN: 9781101905692
ISBN: 1101905697
ISBN: 9781101905715
ISBN: 1101905719
Physical Description: print
310 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2016]

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Subject:

Cubans Fiction
Mariel Boatlift, 1980 Fiction
Immigrants Cultural assimilation Fiction
Separated parents Fiction
Hartford (Conn.)

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Domestic fiction.

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