![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What Dolores knows, though, is that to survive, she must win her own war, and commit an act of violence that threatens to destroy her daughter Carmen’s world.Ģ016, Miami: Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, is shocked when her daughter Jeanette announces her plans to travel to Cuba to see her grandmother Dolores. But these are dangerous political times, and as María begins to see marriage and motherhood as her only options, the sounds of war are approaching.ġ959, Cuba: Dolores watches her husband make for the mountains in answer to Fidel Castro’s call to arms. We are more than we think we are.ġ866, Cuba: María Isabel is the only woman employed at a cigar factory, where each day the workers find strength in daily readings of Victor Hugo. Five generations of women, linked by blood and circumstance, by the secrets they share, and by a single book passed down through a family, with an affirmation scrawled in its margins: We are force. ![]()
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