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050 00 $aPS3601.C47$bL68 2005
082 00 $a813/.6$222
100 1 $aAcevedo, Chantel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005024628
245 10 $aLove and ghost letters /$cChantel Acevedo.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2005.
300 $a312 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"From the outside, Josefina Navarro's life seems fortunate: she lives with her father and her nursemaid, Regla, who has been raising her since the death of her mother in a luxurious home in Vedado, one of Cuba's wealthiest districts. She attends society dances and is courted by all of Havana's elite young bachelors." "Enchanted by the rituals of her nursemaid, Josefina learns about the profound mysticism inherent in even the most mundane affairs. Though she is pampered, Josefina feels that her life is without passion or excitement. Her father, Sergeant Antonio Navarro, a Spaniard by birth, is a stern and demanding man whose past is a tightly kept secret. When she meets and marries Lorenzo Concepcion, a poor, reckless young man, her father tells her, "So, you have chosen him... and you will be hungry and miserable all your life."" "The couple moves to El Cotorro, a poverty-stricken town that is far removed from the Vedado plazas and carefully tended gardens Josefina knew. Then Lorenzo begins to leave her for months at a time, "looking for work," but in reality, womanizing and carousing all over the island. Even after the birth of two healthy children, Josefina is not happy. This is not the life she had envisioned." "During a political maelstrom, history brings the sergeant to El Cotorro to quell a riot in which he is attacked and presumed dead. But perception is reality on an island where darkness and light commingle, and magic and truth are one and the same." "When Josefina begins receiving letters from her father, she believes that they are heaven's missives - ghost letters. Through the letters, Josefina comes to know her father intimately, as a ghost and guardian, as he reveals the truth about his life. In the act of writing and reading, she has found a love to fill the empty places in her heart." "Set in Miami and Cuba and covering nearly fifty years of that island's history, Love and Ghost Letters unfolds the lives of the members of the Navarro-Concepcion families in the patterns and permutations of memory, and conjures a Cuban setting that evokes mysticism and magic."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPolice$xFamily relationships$vFiction.
650 0 $aParent and adult child$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108761
650 0 $aFathers and daughters$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103515
650 0 $aMarried women$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107257
650 0 $aPoor women$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108891
650 0 $aExiles$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102998
651 0 $aCuba$vFiction.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101586
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026492
655 7 $aEpistolary fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026314
655 7 $aDomestic fiction.$2lcgft$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026295
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3601.C47$iL68 2005