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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Mango Chronicle

The Mango Chronicle

González-Rothi, Ricardo José

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ISBN10: 1960018191
ISBN13: 9781960018199
Publisher: Rize
Published: May 7 2024
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.59 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In an entangled exodus to freedom during a nuclear missile crisis, a young boy's Cuban Huck-Finn-childhood is upended. After a decades-long struggle with identity, he transitions from refugee to good American, returning to his roots for redemption. He left his birthplace during a nuclear missile crisis. As a refugee in a foreign land he struggles to adjust to a new set of life circumstances. The author recollects his childhood in his Cuban barrio from the eyes of a child, and then decades later, from the vantage of a grown adult. From stealing a rowboat and being nearly capsized by a Russian tanker, to befriending an old fisherman who tells him a haunting tale, to being bullied by a neighborhood thug, to cockfights gone wrong, to witnessing the plight of political prisoners during an invasion, to dealing with the injustices of growing up in a machismo and homophobic culture, he led a Cuban Huck Finn childhood. Arriving in a foreign land which is at times unwelcoming, he struggles to assimilate while preserving his native soul. Eventually he finds redemption upon circling back to his roots when he returns to the island.

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