From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Ada Ferrer comes a memoir about migration, separation, and the love of one family forcing its way through the fissures of history.
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Praise for Keeper of My Kin
“What country, friends, is this?' asks Viola, washed ashore in Illyria at the beginning of Twelfth Night. Here, another island, Cuba, and the shores of America; another wine-dark, enclosed, estranging sea; other odysseys. Ferrer has written a history that is also myth: of those left behind, lost brothers, found families, old and new lives. Keeper of My Kin is exhilarating to read; I loved it; I loved knowing more about all the departures and returns, the losses and reparations, that have made the modern world.”
—CAROLYN STEEDMAN,
author of Landscape for a Good Woman
“Love is everywhere in this book: the deep romantic bond between her parents, the author’s intense attachment to both of them and to other relatives, and to the troubled island country she lived in for only ten months, yet became the center of her scholarship, her thinking, and her identity. As heartbreaking as this story often is, it is equally heartwarming, filled with love of all kinds.”
—KIRKUS (STARRED REVIEW)
