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Dreaming in Cuban: 06/18/08
The second item in Havana is an excerpt from Cristina Garcia's novel Dreaming in Cuban. Celia as a grandmother to twin girls looks back on her life, comparing her current situation to the unhappiness of her early marriage and the lover who left her. She also shares a brief memory of the early days of the revolution and the way it served as well needed distraction from her life. The melancholy tone of the excerpt with the pastiche of magical realism reminds me Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo. I liked the twenty pages I read and hope to some day read the entire novel.
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