{"product_id":"sugar-and-ashes-renato-canuto-9798195672843","title":"Sugar and Ashes: A Novel of Cuba and Exile","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoaquín Valdés-Montoro is thirty-six years old in 1958, the master of a sugar mill that has been in his family for three generations. By 1961 he is a clerical worker in a Hialeah hardware wholesaler, practicing the English word \u003ci\u003ethirsty\u003c\/i\u003e into a kitchen mirror at night. By 2003 he is the last man at a desk in a Coral Gables study, opening a box his late wife left him and discovering, fifty years after the fact, what she had been writing down all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning the burning of a cane field in spring 1957 to a granddaughter's first words in March 2002, \u003ci\u003eSugar and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e is a quiet, exacting novel about what a man carries when his country can no longer carry him - about marriage, brothers, exile, the slow architecture of a life rebuilt in a borrowed language, and the small invisible seam where one country joins another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA debut of remarkable restraint and emotional precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Renato Canuto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195672843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.09d","brand":"Renato Canuto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801475657983,"sku":"9798195672843","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sugar-and-ashes-renato-canuto-9798195672843","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}