Betty Viamontes

The Dance of the Rose (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of the highly-rated novel "Waiting on Zapote Street." Rio and Laura reunite in the United States after being kept apart for almost twelve years. Rio now has two teenage daughters and an eleven-year-old boy he hardly knows. How to start again, as if the years had not passed? Would Rio's past continue to haunt him and his family? The Dance of the Rose is the heartfelt, memoir-style story about a Cuban-American family and their fight to be whole again and achieve the American Dream. Based on a true story. At the end, it includes over two dozen poignant testimonies from people who came to the United States from all over the world in search of freedom and opportunity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Betty Viamontes
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370644988
• Artikelnr.: 48388493

Autorenporträt

Betty Viamontes was born in Havana, Cuba. In 1980, at age fifteen, she and her family arrived in the United States on a shrimp boat to reunite with her father after twelve years of separation. "Waiting on Zapote Street," based on her family's story, her first novel won the Latino Books into Movies award and has been selected by many book clubs. She also published an anthology of short stories, all of which take place on Zapote Street and include some of the characters from her first novel.

Betty's stories have traveled the world, from the award-winning Waiting on Zapote Street to the No. 1 New Amazon re-leases "The Girl from White Creek," "The Pedro Pan Girls: Seeking Closure," and "Brothers: A Pedro Pan Story."

Other works include:
Havana: A Son's Journey Home
The Dance of the Rose
Under the Palm Trees: Surviving Labor Camps in Cuba
Candela's Secrets and Other Havana Stories
The Pedro Pan Girls: Seeking Closure
Love Letters from Cuba
Flight of the Tocororo

Betty Viamontes lives in Florida with her family and pursued graduate studies at the University of South Florida.