María marries Antonio, a co-worker at the cigar workshop, who introduces her to literature including Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, in which she finds comfort. She is the only female employee at a cigar workshop and becomes involved in the underground anti-Spanish political movement after her mother’s death. The narrative then shifts to María Isabel, Carmen’s great-grandmother, in Camagüey, 1866. The novel begins in 2018 with Carmen, a middle-aged woman living in Miami, who begs her daughter, Jeanette, to find the will to defeat her drug addiction. The chapters alternate between the perspectives of different women, spanning across time and location. Garcia’s novel follows the lineage of two families whose lives become interconnected. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Garcia, Gabriela.
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