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Blessed by Thunder: Memoir of a Cuban Girlhood Book
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Product Description
A small child when Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, the author grew up amid the chaotic events of the revolution and witnessed the irrevocable changes it brought to her family and community. After requesting to leave the country when the family plantation was seized and ruined, Flor and her family were taunted and labeled gusanos (worms). At 11, she was sent away to a rural work camp where she picked tobacco and sugar cane for two years. Despite daily hardships, Flor found wisdom and comfort among the older women in her family, each of whom taught her about the power of spirits and the magical ways of healing. Moving to the United States in 1970, she left them behind but carried their curanderismo -- healing wisdom -- with her.
- 1580050212
- 9781580050210
- Flor Fernandez Barrios
- 1 May 2001
- Seal Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 244
- illustrated edition
- Illustrated
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