{"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":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947339219175,"sku":"9780618154548","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_58e81099-da24-404a-8fe5-66949b94a75a.jpg?v=1775487304","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/the-sugar-island","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}