num_pages: 166
description: ***PLEASE This is the 2016 self-published edition and is now out-of-print. The new edition will be forthcoming from Papillote Press on May 31, 2018.Rafi Consuelo. Anita Valle. These are the names of the missing.It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb on the outskirts of Havana. Adela Santiago is thirteen years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. Her neighbors are disappearing. One by one they are being abducted in the night and no one knows who is responsible. Not only that, but her parents’ marriage seems to be disintegrating before her, and her sixteen-year-old cousin is involved with a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where the sight of police officers shooting citizens in broad daylight is a normalcy, where every day there is a higher body count than the day before, where in the cramped pews of churches, in the creaking wood of people’s front porches, in the floating smoke of backwards Havana alleys, a revolution is brewing.Welcome to Cuba.
language: English
title: The Art of White Roses
publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform