03843nam 2200685Ia 450 991095315580332120251116234913.00-8070-0039-6(CKB)2670000000015837(OCoLC)547487282(CaPaEBR)ebrary10331730(SSID)ssj0000337593(PQKBManifestationID)11242604(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337593(PQKBWorkID)10289312(PQKB)10578017(MiAaPQ)EBC3118063(Au-PeEL)EBL3118063(CaPaEBR)ebr10331730(OCoLC)922968023(BIP)30111579(BIP)26744293(EXLCZ)99267000000001583720090313d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFamily sentence the search for my Cuban-revolutionary, prison-yard, mythic-hero, deadbeat dad /Jeanine CornillotBoston Beacon Pressc20091 online resource (230 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8070-0038-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Five things I know -- Kids' guidebook to prison -- Open skies -- Shadow fathers -- Men are people too -- The Little Havana abductions -- Brothers big and small -- Spanish lesson -- Man in the house -- Good crimes -- The hunger letters -- Getting by -- I [love] Ponch -- Postcards from prison -- Free at last! -- Hard times, again -- The worst family reunion ever.Jeanine Cornillot was just two years old when her father, a former Cuban revolutionary turned anti-Castro militant, was sentenced to thirty years in a Florida prison for political bombings. His absence left a single mother to raise four children who kept his incarceration a secret and conjured a mythic father-hero out of his occasional letters.   Jeanine's Irish American mother struggled to support the family in suburban Philadelphia. Summers, she put Jeanine on a plane to Little Havana, where she lived with her Spanish-speaking grandparents and bilingual cousin-a sometimes unreliable translator. It was there in Florida that she met her father face to face, in the prison yards.   As Cornillot travels between these two worlds, a wryly funny and unsentimental narrator emerges. Whether meeting her father for the first time at age six and hoping she looks Cuban enough, imagining herself a girl-revolutionary leading protest marches, dreamily planning her father's homecoming after his prison break, or writing to demand an end to his forty-four-day hunger strike after he's recaptured, young Jeanine maintains a hopeful pragmatism that belies her age.   Eventually, a child's mythology is replaced with an adult's reality in a final reckoning with her father, remarkable for the unsparing honesty on both sides. From the Trade Paperback edition.Cuban AmericansBiographyIrish AmericansBiographyFathers and daughtersUnited StatesChildren of prisonersUnited StatesBiographyIntercultural communicationUnited StatesFamily reunionsUnited StatesLittle Havana (Miami, Fla.)BiographyPhiladelphia (Pa.)BiographyCuban AmericansIrish AmericansFathers and daughtersChildren of prisonersIntercultural communicationFamily reunions306.874/2Cornillot Jeanine1965-1868302MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910953155803321Family sentence4476168UNINA