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Author Palacio, Derek, 1982- author

Title The mortifications : a novel / Derek Palacio

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Fiction Cellar  P1692 .m    AVAILABLE  
Edition First edition
Phys Descr 310 pages ; 25 cm
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
Subject Cubans -- Fiction
Mariel Boatlift, 1980 -- Fiction
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Fiction
Separated parents -- Fiction
Hartford (Conn.), setting
Other Form Online version: Palacio, Derek, 1982- author. Mortifications. First edition. New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2016] 9781101905708 (DLC) 2015044323
OCLC # 928750722
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