The Dance of the Rose
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The Dance of the Rose
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Betty Viamontes
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After twelve years apart, a family divided by oceans and time is finally reunited—but the life they’ve dreamed of may be impossible to reclaim.
For more than a decade, a mother and her three children have struggled to survive in Cuba while the father built a lonely life in the United States. Now, in Tampa, Florida, they are together again. But the years have changed them all. The daughters are teenagers. The boy is eleven. And the man who was once left to give them a better future no longer knows how to reach them.
The mother’s faith has sustained her through years of separation, but her husband has lost his—along with the man he used to be. Unknown to his family, he carries a secret from his past that could destroy the fragile hope of their new beginning.
As buried pain rises to the surface and love is tested to its limits, one woman must find the strength to keep her family from falling apart forever.
From the author of the award-winning Waiting on Zapote Street. "'The Dance of the Rose' is an exciting novel where the author, Betty Viamontes, recreates the moments that a Cuban family encounters, from the breakup of a marriage, forced to endure twelve years of separation -the husband in the United States and the wife with three young children in Cuba, holding the illusion of reunion in the face of continuous adversity.
This novel describes the reunion of the family and the mother's efforts to overcome estrangement, the distance between the children and the father, and between herself and her husband, as well as their integration into a different culture and language. The tenacity, intelligence, and, above all, the love with which the parents ignore their own mental schemes in favor of the growth and triumph of their children, make of this novel an edifying work, besides the pleasure that produces a pleasing writing of emotions." By Gabriel Cartaya, columnist, editor, and Latin America Studies expert.