The mortifications : a novel / Derek Palacio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Palacio, Derek, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cubans--Fiction.

Cubans.

Mariel Boatlift, 1980--Fiction.

Mariel Boatlift, 1980.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation--Fiction.

Immigrants.

Separated parents--Fiction.

Separated parents.

Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.

Hartford (Conn.) setting.

Hartford (Conn.).

Connecticut--Hartford.

FICTION / Literary.

FICTION / Political.

FICTION / Hispanic & Latino.

Local Subjects:

FICTION / Literary.

FICTION / Political.

FICTION / Hispanic & Latino.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

310 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2016]

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Palacio, Derek, 1982- author. Mortifications.

ISBN:

9781101905692

1101905697

9781101905715

1101905719

OCLC:

928750722