The Dance of the Rose

By Betty Viamontes

Book Overview

After twelve years apart, a family torn by distance is finally reunited in Tampa, Florida. The mother and her three children have spent over a decade in Cuba, while the father built a life alone in the United States. Now, the girls are teenagers, the boy is eleven, and the father dreams of picking up where he left off. But too much time has passed. Nothing is the same.

The mother, a woman of deep faith, has her own ideas about raising their children. Her devotion guides her, while the father-hardened by loneliness-has lost his belief in everything, including himself. Beneath the surface, he hides a secret from his past that threatens to unravel everything he's trying to rebuild.

As old wounds surface and new conflicts emerge, the mother must summon all her strength to hold the family together before it fractures once again-this time, for good.

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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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986423769
• ISBN13: 9780986423765
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Zapote Street Books, LLC
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"