"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...

A young Cuban woman has been searching in vain for details of her birth mother. All she knows of her past is that her grandfather fled the turbulent Havana of the 1960s for Miami with her in tow, and that pinned to her sweater-possibly by her mother-were a few treasured lines of a Pablo Neruda poem. These facts remain her only tenuous links to her history, until a mysterious parcel arrives in the mail. Inside the soft, worn box are layers of writings...

A Cuban-American's quest to learn the truth about her family. Are the stories of their achievement in pre-revolutionary Cuba true, or are they exaggerations or, worse, inventions? A look at a problem frequently faced by children of immigrants.

Kuba, 1958 god. Revolyutsionnoye dvizheniye v strane nabirayet oboroty. Devyatnadtsatiletnyaya Eliza, doch' sakharnogo barona, dazhe ne podozrevayet, chto sovsem skoro yeye zhizn' navsegda izmenitsya, i prichina tomu -- lyubov'. Amerika, 2017 god. "Kogda ya umru, otvezi menya na Kubu". I vot Marisol' vykhodit iz zdaniya mezhdunarodnogo aeroporta Khose Marti, chtoby ispolnit' poslednyuyu volyu babushki: "Razvey moy prakh nad zemley, kotoruyu ya lyubila....