The mortifications
Subtitle: a novel
By: Derek Palacio
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781101905692; 9781101905715
Subjects: Cubans; Mariel Boatlift, 1980; Separated parents; Cultural assimilation; Immigrants; Fiction
Description: In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boat-lift. Uxbal Encarnación--father, husband, political insurgent--refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar heat, Soledad pushes further north into the stark, wintry landscape of Hartford, Connecticut. There, in the long shadow of their estranged patriarch, now just a distant memory, the exiled mother and her children begin a process of growth and transformation.