Tanya is constantly at odds with her unreliable mother, so she is reluctant to follow her when she decides to move the family from Cuba to America.

Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has

Set in 1960s Cuba, as Castro's revolution begins, this debut novel follows a girl named Tanya, her mother, and band of other refugees who board a makeshift raft