A wake in Ybor city
By: Jose Yglesias ; with a new foreword by Rafael Yglesias.
Publisher: Arte Pub́lico Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Cuban Americans -- Fiction; Ybor City (Tampa, Fla.) -- Fiction; Tampa (Fla.) -- Fiction
Description: Ybor City, Florida, seems to be a happy, secure place in 1958. Three aging sisters - Mina, Clemencia, and Dolores - look forward to seeing their children, in-laws, and grandchildren come for a pleasant visit to this quiet, blue-collar neighborhood that all three call home. But beneath the calm surface, fierce currents surge: old family rivalries, sexual intrigues, class envies, political antagonism, even borderline criminal activity.

No one has realized it yet, but this proud Cuban-American clan stands on the brink of a terrible fall.