Betty Viamontes

The Pedro Pan Girls: Seeking Closure (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of the award-winning "Waiting on Zapote Street" comes another story that will pull at the reader's heart strings. In 1961, Olivia and Clarisa become part of an exodus that brings over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the United States: Operation Pedro Pan. What should have been a short separation from their parents will mark the transformation of their lives. Fifty-five years later, they go back to Cuba. Will they find the closure they so desperately seek? In addition to the novel, this book includes pictures of several Pedro Pan children, including two celebrities who kindly agreed to have their information included, the talented author and Yale professor Carlos Eire and the mega-star singer Willy Chirino. To honor some of the children, the author included the names of over 110 Pedro Pan children who granted the author permission to publish them, as well as ages, dates they left Cuba, and the time separated from their parents. Some never saw their parents again.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Betty Viamontes
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005103002
• Artikelnr.: 70193928

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.