![]() ![]() Her narrative reveals to the reader that she originally fled El Salvador to escape the person who killed her brother. A guard pressures Gloria to sign a voluntary departure form. However, Carmen persuades Jeanette to call the police and Ana is subsequently removed from Jeanette’s care.Īna’s mother, Gloria, is in a family detention center in Texas. Jeanette takes in her neighbor’s child, Ana, for a few days after Ana’s mother Gloria is arrested by ICE. The readers then hear from the perspective of Jeanette in 2014, aged 27 and struggling with sobriety. Antonio is shot for his refusal to declare loyalty to the Spanish crow at the same moment that María is giving birth to their daughter, Cecilia. María marries Antonio, a co-worker at the cigar workshop, who introduces her to literature including Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, in which she finds comfort. She is the only female employee at a cigar workshop and becomes involved in the underground anti-Spanish political movement after her mother’s death. ![]() The narrative then shifts to María Isabel, Carmen’s great-grandmother, in Camagüey, 1866. The novel begins in 2018 with Carmen, a middle-aged woman living in Miami, who begs her daughter, Jeanette, to find the will to defeat her drug addiction. The chapters alternate between the perspectives of different women, spanning across time and location. Garcia’s novel follows the lineage of two families whose lives become interconnected. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Garcia, Gabriela. ![]()
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