"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...

Alejandra San Jose was born in Havana on the day Castro seized power. Her parents, fearing the conflict and strife, took Ale and fled to North America. Growing up in Chicago in a community of refugees who lived with the hope of Castro's fall, all Ale retained of their former life was her profound respect for the Spanish language and the beautiful work her father did as a linguist and translator. When her own job as an interpreter takes her back to...

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...