{"product_id":"the-sugar-island","title":"The Sugar Island","description":"\u003cp\u003eIvonne Lamazares’s distinguished debut novel is \"at once a deeply personal and worldly tale . . . a wonderful amalgamation of culture, politics, and love\" (Philadelphia Weekly). With economical prose and a clear-eyed vision, Lamazares evokes lives full of hope but fraught with obstacles in this story of a mother and daughter in 1960s Cuba. The story is told in the brave, tough voice of Tanya, a girl at odds with her mother and with the rapidly changing world around her. In the wake of Castro’s revolution, Tanya's mother -- passionate and unreliable -- is determined to leave Cuba at all costs and to take her reluctant daughter with her. THE SUGAR ISLAND presents their embattled relationship against the backdrop of a country in conflict with itself, where the old world chafes against the new and where a parent’s desperate grab for freedom has dire consequences for her child.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ivonne Lamazares","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55253815197987,"sku":"9780618154548","price":10.36,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780618154548.jpg?v=1781823219","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/the-sugar-island","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}