Set in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, this is the coming-of-age story of Hector Santinio, the American-born son of Cuban immigrants, who is haunted by tales of -home---a Cuba of ancestral memory, beauty, sensuousness, and ease, a place he has never known--and by the sudden death of his father. His struggle toward adulthood is inseparable from his struggle to understand his -Cubanness- and to come to terms with his father, an exuberant, charming, and generous hotel cook who drank too much, disappeared for days, and gambled the family's money away. Moving, intimate, and highly...
Set in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s, this is the coming-of-age story of Hector Santinio, the American-born son of Cuban immigrants, who is hau...
