Where There Was Fire
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2024, ©2023.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large print edition.
Description: 437 pages (large print) : genealogical table ; 23 cm.
When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family's rupture, steeped in machismo, jealousy, labor uprisings, and the havoc wreaked by banana plantations in Central America.
Series: Thorndike Press large print diverse voices.
Subjects:
Colonies -- Fiction.
Imperialism -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Costa Rica -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Colonies -- Fiction.
Imperialism -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Large type books.
Costa Rica -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9798885798846
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