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  • Book: The Distant Marvels
  • Location: Cuba (Republic of)
  • Author: Chantel Acevedo

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Content

It is 1963, as the book opens, and Hurricane Flora has moved away from Haiti and is hitting Cuba. It is a phenomenon that is “bigger than all of Cuba”  Eighty- two year old  Maria Sirena has taken refuge along with several other women in Casa Diego Velazquez, the sixteenth century home of the first governor of Cuba, and now a museum. To keep everyone’s spirits up, she tells stories from her life.

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