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Leaving Glorytown : one boy's struggle under Castro / Eduardo F. Calcines.

by Calcines, Eduardo F.

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Farrar Straus Giroux, c2009.

972.91064 C144L

Calcines, Eduardo F.

Cubans -- Biography.

Refugees -- United States -- Biography.

Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990.

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9780374343941 (hardcover)

0374343942 (hardcover)

221 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Coming to Glorytown -- The revolution -- The Bay of Pigs -- Our last noche buena -- More changes -- Stories to ease the pain -- Tio William's arrest -- 149901 -- Gusanos -- Remember the Lord -- More goodbyes -- Panetelas de vainilla -- The ashes of spring -- La Natividad -- Nguyen Van Troy -- Papa's homecoming -- Senora Santana -- A taste of freedom -- Planning to escape -- Flight to freedom.

When Eduardo Calcines was three years old, Communists took control of Cuba. Eleven years passed before Calcines and his family were finally able to leave the country. Now sixty-three, Calcines, a successful American businessman, recounts what it was like to grow up under Fidel Castro's rule.

A Junior Library Guild selection

Autobiographies.

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