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1) Loving Che
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The story opens in contemporary Miami, where a young Cuban woman has for years been searching in vain for details of her birth mother. All she knows is that her mother delivered her into the hands of her grandfather, who fled Havana for Los Angeles with baby in tow. The quest for her mother seems hopeless until a mysterious parcel containing writings and photographs arrives in the mail. Along with several trips back to Havana, the daughter fits the...
2) Memory mambo
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Memory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family's laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Achy Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile—from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality—and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another....
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"We came all the way from Cuba so you could dress like this? my father will ask over my mother's shoulder. And for the first time in my life, I'll say, Look, you didn't come for me, you came for you; you came because all your rich clients were leaving and you were going to wind up a cashier in your father's hardware store if you didn't leave, okay?" A collection of stories on uprooted people.
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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...
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