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Scatter My Ashes Over Havana
Olga Karman
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152 pages | ISBN: 0-9765096-4-4
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Summary
A poet and professor intensively recreates a vast piece of personal and social history as she describes her flight from her native Cuba amid political turmoil, her struggle for a new life in the United States and, four decades later, an eventful return visit to the land of her birth.
SCATTER MY ASHES OVER HAVANA depicts these momentous experiences and events with a poet's keen language, and in a narrative that stays refreshingly brief.
This is a book about exile and immigration, about the search for identity in a new land, and about a woman's hard work in making a life for herself and her children. It is also a book about finding home.
SCATTER MY ASHES OVER HAVANA has powerful scenes of revolution in Cuba and of social upheaval in the United States during the 1960's. It shows the fight of Hispanic peoples for social and political recognition in Buffalo, New York, a city that receives an especially colorful and sympathetic portrayal in the pages of this book.
Finally, SCATTER MY ASHES OVER HAVANA gives us the tremendous drama of going home again. Contrary to the title of a great American novel, going home again is something that all of us can do--and, as difficult as the encounter might be, it's a personal act that lets us come fully to terms with ourselves.
About the Author
Olga Karman was born in Havana of Cuban and American parents. As a university student, she worked as a hospital volunteer tending Rebel Army soldiers who had been wounded in the Cuban Revolution. But she quickly grew disillusioned with the revolution and moved to the United States to marry her American fiancé. After finishing her education at Connecticut College and Harvard University, Olga became a professor at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York, where she has taught Spanish language and literature for more than two decades. Her poetry has appeared in numerous places and in two books of her own. This is her first book of prose.
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