Cover image for The mortifications : a novel / Derek Palacio.
Title:
The mortifications : a novel / Derek Palacio.
ISBN:
9781101905692
1101905697
9781101905715
1101905719
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Info:
New York :
Description:
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.
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