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“With Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You, spellbinding storyteller Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés delivers on that you-must-listen-up promise of her title, gifting readers with a pitch-perfect array of characters and voices that captivate, enthrall, and illuminate. The world spins on, yet in varying ways Cuba has left a mark on each of these individuals—the island a sun around which they will forever orbit to some degree—and to read these unflinching stories is to feel the poignant truth of actual lives and actual struggles. A collection that is as important as it is engrossing.”—Skip Horack, author of The Other Joseph, The Eden Hunter, and The Southern Cross
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She had forgotten the words to the prayers and ignored the collection basket passed around her. Roxana wondered why her own mother had tried so hard to make her into a niña de casa. She even believed now that Mamá had, in fact, prepared her for harassment—“Put on lipstick before you go out!” “Smile and don’t use foul language, that’s for loose women,” “Wear bright colors, nice young girls like you should always use colores alegres,” along with the numerous reprimands about her bad posture, chipped, unpainted hands and sloppily brushed hair. It was always something, and not just her looks but everything; she had to be a well-liked, nice girl, all while earning good grades, helping in the house, and above all, being respectable.
“We know you girls didn’t want to move but you’re still young and you would have adjusted quickly. New Jersey is all you know; it would have been an adventure pero,” he shook his head and massaged his neck, “it’s just not the right time.”
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