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Palma, Raul
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Fiction
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2023
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Indiana University Press
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English
β 373 KB
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In This World of Ultraviolet Light
β Scribed by Raul Palma
- Book ID
- 115226721
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Year
- 2022
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 609 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780253065032
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
**"These are new Cubans. Twenty-first-century Marielitos. Balseros, as the bartender had referred to them. I know, because my mom tells me that these are the kinds of Cubans I need to stay away from."
** In eight captivating stories, In This World of Ultraviolet Light βwinner of the 2021 Don Belton Prizeβnavigates tensions between Cubans, Cuban Americans, and the larger Latinx community. Though these stories span many locationsβfrom a mulch manufacturing facility on the edge of Big Cypress National Preserve to the borderlands between Georgia and the Carolinasβthey are overshadowed by an obsession with Miami as a place that exists in the popular imagination. Beyond beaches and palm trees, Raul Palma goes off the beaten path to portray everyday people clinging to their city and struggling to find cultural grounding. As Anjali Sachdeva writes, "This is fiction to steal the breath of any reader, from any background."
Boldly interrogating identity, the discomfort...
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