num_pages: 406
description: Engel has an eye for detail. She knows how to drown the reader in a sense of enchantment... She writes exquisite moments.Roxane Gay The NationReina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community throwing a baby off a bridgea crime for which Reina secretly blames herself. With her brother's death though devastated and in mourning Reina is finally released from her prison vigil. Seeking anonymity she moves to a sleepy town in the Florida Keys where she meets Nesto Cadena a recently exiled Cuban awaiting with hope the arrival of the children he left behind in Havana. Through Nestos love of the sea and capacity for faith Reina comes to understand her own connections to the life-giving and destructive forces of the ocean that surrounds her as well as its role in her family's troubled history and in their companionship begins to find freedom from the burden of guilt she carries for her brothers crime.Set in the vibrant coastal and Caribbean communities of Miami the Florida Keys Havana Cuba and Cartagena Colombia with The Veins of the Ocean Patricia Engel delivers a profound and riveting Pan-American story of fractured lives finding solace and redemption in the beauty and power of the natural world and in one another.
language: English
title: The Veins of the Ocean
publisher: Grove Press