
Marisol, 60 years later, following Elisa passing away, starts the novel on a plane from the U.S. They do not know when they will be able to return. Her sisters, Isabel, Beatriz, and Maria stand alongside her and their parents, Emilio and Mrs. Elisa is 19, living in the Miramar district of Havana with her family, and Marisol is in her thirties, visiting Cuba from Miami, returning her grandmothers ashes to her home.Įlisa begins the novel waiting in the airport in Havana with her family, forced into exile by the country’s new political regime. Both of these characters are in Cuba, and both are first-person narrators. Berkley, 2018.Ĭleeton’s novel is divided into 31 chapters, each from the perspective of either Elisa Perez in the late 1950s or her future granddaughter, Marisol Ferrera in 2017.

The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Cleeton, Chanel.
