Betty Viamontes

Flight of the Tocororo (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The flight of the tocororo is a collaboration between two Cuban authors who left the island in different historical periods, Susana Jiménez-Mueller in 1959, and Betty Viamontes, during the Mariel exodus in 1980. Susana was five years old and Betty, fifteen. Both went through extraordinary experiences that would have left anyone crushed. How does a girl who loses her father and sister in exile manage to collect the pieces of her shattered child and reach the inconceivable? How can a young woman who lived without her father for twelve years, suffered severe traumas during her childhood and arrived from Cuba in a shrimp boat, without knowing English, eventually obtain an executive role in an American organization? How could she be selected by the governor of Florida as a board member of an institution of higher learning, eventually becoming its chairwoman? Like Cuba's national bird, the colorful tocororo, the two needed wings to fly and the freedom to achieve their dreams. Don't miss their emotional stories. Betty has written eight books about Cuban exiles, so that the experiences of her countrymen are not forgotten. Susana, apart from her publications, brings Cuba's cry of freedom to homes through The Green Plantain - The Cuban Stories Project podcast. Together, they bring to the world the imprint of the fighting spirit of immigrants everywhere.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Betty Viamontes
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005047481
• Artikelnr.: 70193881

Autorenporträt

Betty Viamontes was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1980, at age fifteen, she and her family arrived in the United States on a shrimp boat to reunite with her father after twelve years of separation. "Waiting on Zapote Street," based on her family's story, her first novel won the Latino Books into Movies award and has been selected by many book clubs. She also published an anthology of short stories, all of which take place on Zapote Street and include some of the characters from her first novel.

Betty's stories have traveled the world, from the award-winning Waiting on Zapote Street to the No. 1 New Amazon re-leases "The Girl from White Creek," "The Pedro Pan Girls: Seeking Closure," and "Brothers: A Pedro Pan Story."

Other works include:
Havana: A Son's Journey Home
The Dance of the Rose
Under the Palm Trees: Surviving Labor Camps in Cuba
Candela's Secrets and Other Havana Stories
The Pedro Pan Girls: Seeking Closure
Love Letters from Cuba
Flight of the Tocororo

Betty Viamontes lives in Florida with her family and pursued graduate studies at the University of South Florida.