Leaving Glorytown : one boy's struggle under Castro / Eduardo F. Calcines.
Author: Calcines, Eduardo F.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
ISBN: 9780374343941 (hardcover) :
0374343942 (hardcover) :
Description: 221 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Calcines, Eduardo F. Juvenile literature.
Calcines, Eduardo F.
Cubans Biography Juvenile literature.
Refugees United States Biography Juvenile literature.
Cubans Biography.
Refugees United States Biography.
Cuba History 1959-1990 Juvenile literature.
Cuba History 1959-1990.
Notes: A Junior Library Guild selection
Contents: Coming to Glorytown -- The revolution -- The Bay of Pigs -- Our last noche buena -- More changes -- Stories to ease the pain -- Tio William's arrest -- 149901 -- Gusanos -- Remember the Lord -- More goodbyes -- Panetelas de vainilla -- The ashes of spring -- La Natividad -- Nguyen Van Troy -- Papa's homecoming -- Senora Santana -- A taste of freedom -- Planning to escape -- Flight to freedom.
Summary: When Eduardo Calcines was three years old, Communists took control of Cuba. Eleven years passed before Calcines and his family were finally able to leave the country. Now sixty-three, Calcines, a successful American businessman, recounts what it was like to grow up under Fidel Castro's rule.
