"Bilingual Spanish/English audiobook narrator Sananes enlivens Costa Rican American poet/writer Arias' multigenerational saga." —Booklist
A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias
Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever.
Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family's rupture, steeped in machismo, jealousy, labor uprisings, and the havoc wreaked by banana plantations in Central America.
Brimming with ancestral spirits, omens, and the anthropomorphic forces of nature, John Manuel Arias weaves a brilliant tapestry of love, loss, secrets, and redemption in Where There was Fire.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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- John Manuel Arias - Author
- Adriana Sananes - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250868961
- File size: 300264 KB
- Release date: August 29, 2023
- Duration: 10:25:32
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9781250868961
- File size: 300297 KB
- Release date: August 29, 2023
- Duration: 10:29:29
- Number of parts: 9
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"Bilingual Spanish/English audiobook narrator Sananes enlivens Costa Rican American poet/writer Arias' multigenerational saga." —Booklist
A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias
Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever.
Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family's rupture, steeped in machismo, jealousy, labor uprisings, and the havoc wreaked by banana plantations in Central America.
Brimming with ancestral spirits, omens, and the anthropomorphic forces of nature, John Manuel Arias weaves a brilliant tapestry of love, loss, secrets, and redemption in Where There was Fire.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.
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Details
Publisher:
Macmillan Audio
Edition:
UnabridgedOverDrive Listen audiobook
ISBN: 9781250868961
File size: 300264 KB
Release date: August 29, 2023
Duration: 10:25:32
MP3 audiobook
ISBN: 9781250868961
File size: 300297 KB
Release date: August 29, 2023
Duration: 10:29:29
Number of parts: 9
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Creators
- John Manuel Arias - Author
- Adriana Sananes - Narrator
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Formats
OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
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Languages
English
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