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Days Of awe (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
[Paperback - 2002]
achy obejas
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Publisher: Ballantine Books | ISBN: 9780345441546 | Pages: 370
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“RICH AND SONOROUS PROSE . . . There’s plenty of reason to hope for the future of a fiction that welcomes writers with such a passionate sense of the past.” –San Jose Mercury News On New Year’s Day, 1959, Alejandra San José was born in Havana, entering the world through the heart of revolution. Fearing the turmoil brewing in Cuba, her parents took Ale and fled to the shores of North America–ending up in Chicago amid a close community of Cuban refugees. As an adult, Ale becomes an interpreter, which takes her back to her homeland for the first time. There, she makes her way back through San José history, uncovering new fragments of truth about the relatives who struggled with their own identities so long ago. For the San Josés, ostensibly Catholics, are actually Jews. They are conversos who converted to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition. As Alejandra struggles to confront what it is to be Cuban and American, Catholic and Jewish, she translates her father’s troubling youthful experiences into the healing language of her own heart. “Lyrically written, Days of Awe reflects the way Cuban Spanish is spoken with poetic rhythm and frankness.” –Ms. “An ambitious work . . . A deft talent whose approach to sex, religion, and ethnicity is keenly provocative.” –Miami Herald “With intelligent, intense writing, Obejas approaches . . . the heady climes of Cuban American stalwarts Oscar Hijuelos and Cristina Garcia.” –Library Journal (starred review)

About the Author

Achy Obejas is the award-winning author ofDays of Awe, Memory MamboandWe Came all the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?Her poems, stories and essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies, includingAkashic's Chicago Noir. A long time contributor to theChicago Tribune, she was part of the 2001 investigative team that earned a Pulitzer Prize for the series, “Gateway to Gridlock.” Her articles have appeared inVanity Fair, Village Voice, The Nation, Playboy, andMS, among others. Currently, she is a music contributor to theWashington Postand the Sor Juana Writer in Residence at DePaul University in Chicago. She was born in Havana

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