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My 1st book after 4 months...
Took a very long time to start this book. I shelved it in 2021. Only started it yesterday and finished it in 2 days. It was really that good.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ She was a daughter, a mother, a revolutionary, a storyteller. Maria is evacuated from her home during Hurricane Flora‘s ravage upon Cuba in 1963. While sheltered in the governor‘s mansion, the women share stories to alleviate their fear. Maria tells her life story in heart-breaking detail, not only in an act of contrition but also in hopes that she will not be forgotten. Deeply moving, folk story like prose. Simply fantastic.

#EmojiMadness Day 30: My personal 👨🏻‍🍳 has just made me and our 16 year old daughter olive oil and garlic with homemade garlic chips and pine nuts and garlic shrimps. Paired with a Europa Editions novel from Cuba for the #LitWorld2018GB and perfect for our upcoming storytellers/memoirs/first-person narrative reading theme from April-June.

@BookishFeminist : My mom is Cuban. Tales of this hurricane—and of Cuban history—abounded in my childhood. Thank you! #SummerSantaGoesPostal

#marchintoreading Day18: #thebacksofwomen
@RealLifeReading

First time to join #feistyfeb Day 10 #flowersoncovers - because I can not decide which one I like more, then might as well share two! Plus #europaeditions is lovelovelove.

I'm so excited!! Look what came in the mail today - my "A" book for the #LitsyAtoZ Reading Challenge 2017! Putting it on the TBR shelf until January.
#bookmail

It's #Recommendsday! What are you recommending? "One of my favorite reads last year! As Cuba's Hurricane Flora strikes in the 60s, women huddle in the attic of a flooded mansion & tell their life stories as they come to terms w/their mortality & pasts. Acevedo's gorgeous, heartrending prose gives an honest, feminist take on Cuban womanhood from its Revolution to today. ?" - @BookishFeminist

I was caught up in the moment during my first BookCon. The sweet boy at the Europa booth encouraged me to take these books. As I recall, either one or both was/were free. #impulsebuybook #augustphotochallenge @TheSpinecrackersBookClub

I loved this! Sad and beautiful and evocative of dust and thunderstorms.

Perfect day to start a new book...
(And a Campari always helps too...)

#TBT During Cuba's Hurricane Flora in the 60s, women huddle in the attic of a flooded building & tell their life stories as they come to terms w/their mortality & pasts. In gorgeous prose, Acevedo gives a heartrending, honest & feminist take on Cuban womanhood from its Revolution to today. 🌺 #ReadWomen

Hearing Chantel read from The Distant Marvels was such a treat. I'm still in awe about getting to work with her.

The best part of this book was how real the history felt.