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Hearing the engaging life story of a mysterious old woman in a Little Havana bar, lonely Cuban-American Cecilia learns about three generations of a clan of diverse origins, a family that includes such members as a reverent Chinese widow, an African slave, and a Spanish matriarch. Reprint.
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A magical new novel "of loss and love across more than a century of Cuba's past."(Chicago Sun-Times)Alone in a city that haunts her, far from her family, her history, and the island she left behind, Cecelia seeks refuge in a bar in Little Havana where a mysterious old woman's fascinating tale keeps Cecelia returning night after night. Her powerful story of long-vanished epochs weaves the saga of three families from far-flung pieces of the world whose connection forms the kind of family that Cecelia has long been missing-one cast from legendary, unbreakable love. As Cecelia falls under the story's heady sway, she discovers the source of the visions that plague her, and a link to the past she cannot shake.
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