ID3 ^TALB 8 Learning to Die in Miami - Confessions of a Refugee BoyTPE1 Carlos Eire/Robert FassTCOP Tantor MediaTCON Biography & AutobiographyTIT2 # Learning to Die in Miami - Part 01TRCK 1COMM ENG
The author of the National Book Award winner Waiting for Snow in Havana returns with this beguilingly beautiful memoir of exile and assimilation in an alluring and alarming new land called America.
Carlos Eire's story of a boyhood uprooted by the Cuban Revolution quickly lures us in, as eleven-year-old Carlos and his older brother Tony touch down in the sun-dappled Miami of 1962—a place of daunting abundance where his old Cuban self must die to make way for a new, American self waiting to be born.
In this enchanting new work, narrated in Eire's inimitable and lyrical voice, young Carlos adjusts to life in his new country. He lives for a time in a Dickensian foster home, struggles to learn English, attends American schools, and confronts the age-old immigrant's plight: surrounded by the bounty of this rich land yet unable to partake. Carlos must learn to balance the divide between his past and present lives and find his way in this strange new world of gas...TLEN 000000120033Pd i 4 mB iM4aPC XUUUZ wo BHD>"I0LV ѶhrL,ɂ0I#@Y+Ȏ删nnREV(