num_pages: 400
description: On New Year’s Day, 1959, Alejandra San José was born in Havana, entering the world through the heart of revolution. Fearing the turmoil brewing in Cuba, her parents took Ale and fled to the shores of North America–ending up in Chicago amid a close community of Cuban refugees. As an adult, Ale becomes an interpreter, which takes her back to her homeland for the first time. There, she makes her way back through San José history, uncovering new fragments of truth about the relatives who struggled with their own identities so long ago. For the San Josés, ostensibly Catholics, are actually Jews. They are conversos who converted to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition. As Alejandra struggles to confront what it is to be Cuban and American, Catholic and Jewish, she translates her father’s troubling youthful experiences into the healing language of her own heart.
language: English
title: Days of Awe
titlecomplete: Days of Awe
genres: Fiction, Latin American, Religion, American, Queer, Historical Fiction, Judaism, Adult Fiction, Jewish, LGBT
ratings_count: 297
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Lambda Literary Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Society of Midland Authors Award
category: Adult Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD
category: LESBIAN FICTION
publisher: Ballantine Books