In This World of Ultraviolet Light: Stories Palma Raul
In This World of Ultraviolet Light: Stories Palma Raul "These are new Cubans. Balseros, as the bartender had referred to them. Twenty-first-century Marielitos. Though these stories span many…
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In This World of Ultraviolet Light: Stories Palma Raul
"These are new Cubans. Balseros, as the bartender had referred to them. Twenty-first-century Marielitos.
Though these stories span many locations--from a mulch manufacturing facility on the edge of Big Cypress National Preserve to the borderlands between Georgia and the Carolinas--they are overshadowed by an obsession with Miami as a place that exists in the popular imagination. I know, because my mom tells me that these are the kinds of Cubans I need to stay away from."In eight captivating stories, In This World of Ultraviolet Light--winner of the 2021 Don Belton Prize--navigates tensions between Cubans, Cuban Americans, and the larger Latinx community. Beyond beaches and palm trees, Raul Palma goes off the beaten path to portray everyday people clinging to their city and struggling to find cultural grounding.
As Anjali Sachdeva writes, "This is fiction to steal
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