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A Crowded Loneliness: The Story of Loss, Survival, and Resilience of a Peter Pan Child of Cuba

A Crowded Loneliness: The Story of Loss, Survival, and Resilience of a Peter Pan Child of Cuba

Shannon, Debbie

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Biographies GeneralCatholicismGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $15.99

ISBN10: 1948981084
ISBN13: 9781948981088
Publisher: Fogbow Books, LLC
Published: Jul 30 2018
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Set in Havana during the Cuban Revolution and in the Deep South before and during the Civil Rights Movement, A Crowded Loneliness, is based on the true story of Catalina Miranda. Born during the Cuban Revolution in Havana, her family worked closely with Fidel Castro to overthrown the dictator Fulgencio Batista, until Castro announced that he was a communist. After her brother's arrest and her father's death, her family decided that she would take part in Operation Peter Pan as part of a mass exodus of over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the United States between 1960 and 1962. At the age of nine, she and her 11-year-old brother, Mario, boarded a plane to Miami with little more than the clothes on their backs. A week later, the dark-skinned Catalina and Mario found themselves separated and shipped off to orphanages in New Orleans--in the Jim Crow South.

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