The Taste of Sugar (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781631497735)

It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of other puertorriquenos, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii--another US territory--where they are confronted by the hollowness of America's promises of prosperity. Writing in the tradition of great Latin American storytelling, Marisel Vera's The Taste of Sugar is an unforgettable novel of love and endurance, and a timeless portrait of the reasons we leave home.


Author: Marisel Vera
ISBN-10: 1631497731
ISBN-13: 9781631497735
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 06/16/2020
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/03/2020
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2020
Library Journal 05/01/2020 pg. 1
Booklist 05/15/2020 pg. 37