258 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 1993 by Ballantine Books.
4 stars
(2 reviews)
A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women and witchcraft, women and their men.
Subjects
- Mothers and daughters -- Cuba -- Fiction
- Mothers and daughters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction
- Cubans -- United States -- Fiction
- Cuba -- Fiction