Synopsis
About Achy Obejas
See more books from this AuthorMoving back and forth from the present to1897, when patriarch Itzak fought heroically in Cuba’s War of Independence against Spain, Alexandra describes her family’s struggle to practice Judaism and her own ambivalence about her faith and her homeland.
| Read Full Review of Days of AweBorn the day Castro came to power, the protagonist of this thoughtful novel comes with her mother and father to the United States when she is two, but cannot ignore her tangled Cuban roots.
| Read Full Review of Days of AweDays of Awe, Achy Obejas's second novel and third book of fiction, centers on its Cuban American protagonist's discovery of her family's concealed Jewishness.
| Read Full Review of Days of AweHer American neighborhood, while Cuban, was primarily Jewish and as she grew she began to detect that her parents had something in common with their Jewish neighbors but it took her quite a while to discover that her father was indeed Jewish and her mother who was Catholic was descended from Jews.
Aug 16 2012 | Read Full Review of Days of AweAn aggregated and normalized score based on 15 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes