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Engel, Patricia.
Subjects
Siblings -- Fiction.
Cubans -- Florida -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Guilt -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction.
Atlantic Ocean -- Fiction.
Florida Keys (Fla.) -- Fiction.
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Engel, Patricia.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Cubans -- Florida -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Guilt -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction.
Atlantic Ocean -- Fiction.
Florida Keys (Fla.) -- Fiction.
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The
veins
of the
ocean
/ Patricia Engel.
by
Engel, Patricia.
Grove Press, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION ENG
Subjects
Siblings -- Fiction.
Cubans -- Florida -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Grief -- Fiction.
Guilt -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction.
Atlantic
Ocean
-- Fiction.
Florida Keys (Fla.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780802124890 (hc.)
0802124895 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Reina Castillo is the alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community, throwing a baby off a bridge--a crime for which Reina secretly blames herself. With her brother's death, though devastated and in mourning, Reina is finally released from her prison vigil. Seeking anonymity, she moves to a sleepy town in the Florida Keys where she meets Nesto Cadena, a recently exiled Cuban awaiting with hope the arrival of the children he leftbehind in Havana. Through Nesto's love of the sea and capacity for faith, Reina comes to understand her own connections to the life-giving and destructive forces of the
ocean
that surrounds her as well as its role in her family's troubled history, and in their companionship, begins to find freedom from the burden of guilt she carries for her brother's crime. Set in the vibrant coastal and Caribbean communities of Miami, the Florida Keys, Havana, Cuba, and Cartagena, Colombia, with The
Veins
of the
Ocean
Patricia Engel delivers a profound and riveting Pan-American story of fractured lives finding solace and redemption in the beauty and power of the natural world, and in one another."--From publisher.
Genre:
Sea stories.
Psychological fiction.
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