Because of their father’s habit that kept him in and out of jail, their Abuelita raised them, with the large family all helping. Olga was 13 and Prieto was 17 when their mother left. Blanca kept her eye on the revolution, giving speeches globally, until one day she left on one of these trips, but never returns. While clean for a stretch, Johnny descended back into drugs, crack and became infected with HIV/AIDS. After meeting and marrying Blanca, also a revolutionary, they had two children. After he returns to his office, we hear him being summoned for a meeting with Arthur Selby – someone not a constituent or a donor – which will be resentfully attended.Īs we learn more from each of these siblings, you learn of how their father Johnny was a revolutionary looking to change schooling to make the next generations of kids more equal, but returned from Vietnam as a heroin addict. We meet her congressman brother, Prieto, as he greets his constituents – the part of the job he loves most. The story begins with us following Olga while she is working to make a bride and her uber-rich family happy by ordering hand-made napkins, while making sure she has added enough to use at her cousin’s wedding in a few weeks. This book is very complex, but also very simple.
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