The Mango Chronicle

By Ricardo José González-Rothi

Book Overview

He leaves his birthplace during a nuclear missile crisis. As a refugee in a foreign land he struggles to adjust to a new set of life circumstances. The author recollects his childhood in his Cuban barrio from the eyes of a child, and then decades later, from the vantage of a grown adult. From stealing a rowboat and being nearly capsized by a Russian tanker, to befriending an old fisherman who tells him a haunting tale, to being bullied by a neighborhood thug, to cockfights gone wrong, to witnessing the plight of political prisoners during an invasion, to dealing with the injustices of growing up in a machismo and homophobic culture, he had led a Cuban Huck Finn childhood. Arriving in an at-times unwelcoming culture, he struggles to assimilate while preserving his native soul. Eventually he finds redemption upon circling back to his roots when he returns to the island.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1960018191
• ISBN13: 9781960018199
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Running Wild Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"