LAST SEEN IN HAVANA, Teresa Dovalpage
Type
Label
LAST SEEN IN HAVANA, Teresa Dovalpage
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
LAST SEEN IN HAVANA
Responsibility statement
Teresa Dovalpage
Summary
" In 2019, newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba to care after her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes wasa little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three years earlier, an American college student with endlesspolitical optimism falls deliriously in love with a handsome Cuban soldier while on a spontaneous visit to the island. She decides to stay permanently, but soon discovers that nothing is as it seems in Havana. The two women's stories proceed in parallelas Mercedes gets closer to discovering the truth about her mother, uncovering shocking family secrets in the process . . "--, Provided by publisher