Word: abuela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revolutionaries who afterward carved "crimson hieroglyphics" into her soft belly, she wants "no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all." But her Americanized daughter Pilar, born in Cuba when the revolution was 11 days old, misses her abuela: "Every day Cuba fades a little more inside me, my grandmother fades a little more inside me. And there's only my imagination where our history should...
Garcia's imagination is ambitious. Not only does she reunite Pilar with her grandmother; she also claims her own aesthetic identity. Like a priestess, in passages of beautiful island incantation, she conjures her Cuban heritage from a land between "death and oblivion," so that she too can fasten on Abuela Celia's drop pearl earrings, sit in a wicker swing by the sea, and watch as the radiant spirits of her forefathers "stretch out a colossal hand...
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