Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (Portuguese in the Americas Series)
“‘The Portuguese are the unknown people,’ declaims Secundo Alves. ‘To be Portuguese in America is to be a stone dropped in the middle of the ocean.’ Alves, one of Charles Reis Felix’s colorful and memorable characters, may be overstating the case, but not by much. And Reis Felix, in his novel of vignettes, brings the Portuguese to life with wit and humor, and above all, with an eye for telling detail that any American writer-of any ethnicity-should envy. This book captures the nature of immigrant New Bedford in a way that will make it relevant and entertaining reading for decades to come!” (Frank X. Gaspar, author of Leaving Pico)