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The Distant Marvels

by Chantel Acevedo
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The acclaimed Cuban American author of Love and Ghost Letters delivers "a wonderful story about the stories we tell each other" set in 1960s Cuba (San Francisco Chronicle). Cuba, 1963. Hurricane Flora, one of the deadliest in recorded history, is bearing down on the island. Seven women have been forcibly evacuated from their homes and herded into the former governor's mansion. There they are watched over by another woman—Ofelia, a young soldier of Castro's new Cuba. As the storm rages and the floodwaters rise, a cigar factory lector named Maria Sirena tells the incredible story of her childhood during Cuba's Third War of Independence; of her father Augustin, a ferocious rebel; of her mother, Lulu, an astonishing woman who fought, loved, dreamed, and suffered as fiercely as her husband. But stories have a way of taking on a life of their own, and soon Maria will reveal more about herself than she or anyone ever expected. Chantel Acevedo's The Distant Marvels is an epic adventure tale, a family saga, a love story, a stunning historical account of armed struggle against oppressors, and a long tender plea for forgiveness. It is, finally, a life-affirming novel about the kind of love that lasts a lifetime and the very art of storytelling itself.

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    April 7, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781609452629
      • File size: 1299 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781609452629
      • File size: 1866 KB

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  • English