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- Publication Date
- 2011-06-07
- Pages
- 307
- ISBN
- 9781439181911
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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
1439181918
ISBN-13
9781439181911
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102881789
Product Key Features
Book Title
Learning to Die in Miami : Confessions of a Refugee Boy
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Cultural Heritage, Personal Memoirs, General, Historical
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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"The history of a conversion, from skeptic to believer....The Cuban identity sticks throughout, for Eire spikes his text with Spanish, but a spiritual quest overrides nationality....At this point, he transcends the crowded field of the Cuban American memoir subgenre and, quite effectively, transcends." - The Miami Herald, "A very intelligent and sensitive bird's-eye view of a Cuban exile's boyhood experiences in America . . . eloquent and moving."-Oscar Hijuelos, "Eire is a tremendously likable narrator, honest about the limitations of memory, always wearing his heart on his sleeve....those who remember the exuberant kid from Waiting for Snow in Havana ...will be moved by the man he becomes." - The New York Times Book Review, "...Irreverent, deeply affecting....rich with smile-inducing pop-culture references and childhood pleasures. Eire loves Marilyn Monroe; models his speech after Andy Griffith and the Beverly Hillbillies; and revels in swimming pools, matinees, the public library, Halloween and, at long last, the mythical snow he finally experiences in Illinois....above all, a story of resilience." - The Seattle Times, “A mix of insightful observation, humor, and heartfelt emotion. . . . Easily one of the more impressive memoirs on the thorny issue of immigration.� Publishers Weekly (starred review), "[Eire] writes with both levity and wisdom about the tension between Carlos the Cuban and Charles the American, describing his process of maturing as 'learning to die'--or, more prosaically, to let go of worldly attachments such as his childhood memories of life in Cuba. With each move, unrequited schoolyard crush or achievement in his adopted language, he sheds a former self. Eventually he embraces this continual reinvention as itself something distinctly American." -- The Wall Street Journal, "[A] vivid, affecting memoir of survival and coming of age....An engrossing Cuban-American story that will leave readers wanting more." -- Kirkus Reviews, "...Irreverent, deeply affecting....rich with smile-inducing pop-culture references and childhood pleasures. Eire loves Marilyn Monroe; models his speech after Andy Griffith and the Beverly Hillbillies; and revels in swimming pools, matinees, the public library, Halloween and, at long last, the mythical snow he finally experiences in Illinois....above all, a story of resilience." -- The Seattle Times, "Eire is a tremendously likable narrator, honest about the limitations of memory, always wearing his heart on his sleeve....those who remember the exuberant kid from Waiting for Snow in Havana ...will be moved by the man he becomes." -- The New York Times Book Review, "The history of a conversion, from skeptic to believer....The Cuban identity sticks throughout, for Eire spikes his text with Spanish, but a spiritual quest overrides nationality....At this point, he transcends the crowded field of the Cuban American memoir subgenre and, quite effectively, transcends." -- The Miami Herald, "[Eire] writes with both levity and wisdom about the tension between Carlos the Cuban and Charles the American, describing his process of maturing as 'learning to die'-or, more prosaically, to let go of worldly attachments such as his childhood memories of life in Cuba. With each move, unrequited schoolyard crush or achievement in his adopted language, he sheds a former self. Eventually he embraces this continual reinvention as itself something distinctly American." - The Wall Street Journal, “A very intelligent and sensitive bird's-eye view of a Cuban exile’s boyhood experiences in America . . . eloquent and moving.� Oscar Hijuelos, "A mix of insightful observation, humor, and heartfelt emotion. . . . Easily one of the more impressive memoirs on the thorny issue of immigration."-Publishers Weekly(starred review), "[A] vivid, affecting memoir of survival and coming of age....An engrossing Cuban-American story that will leave readers wanting more." - Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
Continuing the personal saga begun in the National Book Award-winning Waiting for Snow in Havana , the inspiring, sad, funny, bafflingly beautiful story of a boy uprooted by the Cuban Revolution and transplanted to Miami during the years of the Kennedy administration. In his 2003 National Book Award-winning memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire narrated his coming of age in Cuba just before and during the Castro revolution. That book literally ends in midair as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother leave Havana on an airplane--along with thousands of other children--to begin their new life in Miami in 1962. It would be years before he would see his mother again. He would never again see his beloved father. Learning to Die in Miami opens as the plane lands and Carlos faces, with trepidation and excitement, his new life. He quickly realizes that in order for his new American self to emerge, his Cuban self must "die." And so, with great enterprise and purpose, he begins his journey. We follow Carlos as he adjusts to life in his new home. Faced with learning English, attending American schools, and an uncertain future, young Carlos confronts the age-old immigrant's plight: being surrounded by American bounty, but not able to partake right away. The abundance America has to offer excites him and, regardless of how grim his living situation becomes, he eagerly forges ahead with his own personal assimilation program, shedding the vestiges of his old life almost immediately, even changing his name to Charles. Cuba becomes a remote and vague idea in the back of his mind, something he used to know well, but now it "had ceased to be part of the world." But as Carlos comes to grips with his strange surroundings, he must also struggle with everyday issues of growing up. His constant movement between foster homes and the eventual realization that his parents are far away in Cuba bring on an acute awareness that his life has irrevocably changed. Flashing back and forth between past and future, we watch as Carlos balances the divide between his past and present homes and finds his way in this strange new world, one that seems to hold the exhilarating promise of infinite possibilities and one that he will eventually claim as his own. An exorcism and an ode, Learning to Die in Miami is a celebration of renewal--of those times when we're certain we have died and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
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E184.C97
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