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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Vera, Marisel, author.     Subjects     Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.     Puerto Rican families -- Fiction.     Sugar plantations -- Hawaii -- 19th century -- Fiction.     Puerto Rico -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Vera, Marisel, author.       by title:      The taste of sugar :...         MARC Display

The taste of sugar : a novel / Marisel Vera. by Vera, Marisel, author. New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2020] Subjects Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction.   Puerto Rican families -- Fiction.   Sugar plantations -- Hawaii -- 19th century -- Fiction.   Puerto Rico -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781631497735 (hardcover) : 1631497731 (hardcover) Description:  380 pages : map; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Marisel Vera emerges as a major voice of contemporary fiction with a heart- wrenching novel set in Puerto Rico on the eve of the Spanish-American War. It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of other puertorriquenos, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii-another US territory-where they are confronted by the hollowness of America's promises of prosperity. Writing in the tradition of great Latin American storytelling, Marisel Vera's The Taste of Sugar is an unforgettable novel of love and endurance, and a timeless portrait of the reasons we leave home"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Aiea Public Library Hawaiian Fiction H Vera   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hana P/S Library Hawaiian Fiction H Vera   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hanapepe Public Library Hawaiian Fiction H Vera   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Hawaiian Fiction H Vera   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Hawaiian & Pacific H Vera   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Vera   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library R -- Hawaiian & Pacific H Vera   Non Circulating Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Vera   Checked In Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Hawaiian Fiction H VERA Historical Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Hawaiian Fiction H Vera   Checked In Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 4 Next

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