{"product_id":"the-sugar-island-isbn-9780618154548","title":"The Sugar Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eIvonne Lamazares’s distinguished debut novel is \"at once a deeply personal and worldly tale . . . a wonderful amalgamation of culture, politics, and love\" (Philadelphia Weekly). With economical prose and a clear-eyed vision, Lamazares evokes lives full of hope but fraught with obstacles in this story of a mother and daughter in 1960s Cuba. The story is told in the brave, tough voice of Tanya, a girl at odds with her mother and with the rapidly changing world around her. In the wake of Castro’s revolution, Tanya's mother -- passionate and unreliable -- is determined to leave Cuba at all costs and to take her reluctant daughter with her. THE SUGAR ISLAND presents their embattled relationship against the backdrop of a country in conflict with itself, where the old world chafes against the new and where a parent’s desperate grab for freedom has dire consequences for her child.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Ivonne Lamazares’s fresh, clear voice and lyrical vision of Cuba past  and present are a welcome addition to the New American Literature  that’s developing fast along our borders from Miami to Los Angeles.” --  Russell Banks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Ivonne Lamazares writes of the tug of history, the wrenching of  families. In an intimate voice that is distinctly her own, this novel  is a kind of cross between Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban and Mona  Simpson’s Anywhere but Here. Writing of mothers and daughters in a  world torn apart by politics, Ivonne Lamazares offers a dazzling new  addition to Cuban-American literature.” -- Mary Morris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e “Reading this magnificent first novel, I couldn’t stop myself from  thinking that Holden Caulfield had somehow ended up in revolutionary  Cuba, transformed into a most irreverent teenage girl, brazen and  stubborn and breathtakingly conTdent and keen-eyed, growing up in a  society intent on breaking its own lovesick heart. THE SUGAR ISLAND is  contemporary Tction at its best, prizewinning Tction, and Ivonne  Lamazares is an unforgettable writer.” -- Bob Shacochis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \". . . spare, lyrical, and brilliantly observant . . .  life in  Castro's Cuba . . . comes across clearly in the hands of this talented  new writer.\"  Publishers Weekly, Starred\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most original renditions to date by a Cuban-American writer of the contemporary Cuba story.\" The Miami Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"worth reading for its . . . courageous main character, its striking relevance to recent . . . events, and its . . . sketches of Cuban . . . life.\" The Seattle Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890186481893,"sku":"NP9780618154548","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780618154548.jpg?v=1730232715","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-sugar-island-isbn-9780618154548","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}