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From the bestselling author whose debut novel, "Telex from Cuba," was nominated for a National Book Award comes an extraordinarily ambitious new novel about a y

* Selected as ONE of the BEST BOOKS of the 21st CENTURY by The New York Times * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * New York magazine’s #1 Book of the Year * Best

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Coming of age in mid-1950s Cuba where the local sugar and nickel production are controlled by American interests, Everly Lederer and KC Stites observe the indul