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Family Sentence: The Search For My Cubanrevolutionary, Prisonyard, Mythichero, Deadbeat Dad,Used
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Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned antiCastro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings. His absence left a single mother to raise four children who kept his incarceration a secret and conjured a mythic fatherhero out of his occasional letters.Jeanines Irish American mother struggled to support the family in suburban Philadelphia. Summers, she put Jeanine on a plane to Little Havana, where she lived with her Spanishspeaking grandparents and bilingual cousina sometimes unreliable translator. It was there in Florida that she met her father face to face, in the prison yards.As Cornillot travels between these two worlds, a wryly funny and unsentimental narrator emerges. Whether meeting her father for the first time at age six and hoping she looks Cuban enough, imagining herself a girlrevolutionary leading protest marches, dreamily planning her fathers homecoming after his prison break, or writing to demand an end to his fortyfourday hunger strike after hes recaptured, young Jeanine maintains a hopeful pragmatism that belies her age.Eventually, a childs mythology is replaced with an adults reality in a final reckoning with her father, remarkable for the unsparing honesty on both sides.
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