LEADER 03843nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910953155803321 005 20251116234913.0 010 $a0-8070-0039-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000015837 035 $a(OCoLC)547487282 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10331730 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000337593 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11242604 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000337593 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10289312 035 $a(PQKB)10578017 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3118063 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3118063 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10331730 035 $a(OCoLC)922968023 035 $a(BIP)30111579 035 $a(BIP)26744293 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000015837 100 $a20090313d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFamily sentence $ethe search for my Cuban-revolutionary, prison-yard, mythic-hero, deadbeat dad /$fJeanine Cornillot 210 $aBoston $cBeacon Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8070-0038-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFive 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. 330 $aJeanine 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. 606 $aCuban Americans$vBiography 606 $aIrish Americans$vBiography 606 $aFathers and daughters$zUnited States 606 $aChildren of prisoners$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aIntercultural communication$zUnited States 606 $aFamily reunions$zUnited States 607 $aLittle Havana (Miami, Fla.)$vBiography 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$vBiography 615 0$aCuban Americans 615 0$aIrish Americans 615 0$aFathers and daughters 615 0$aChildren of prisoners 615 0$aIntercultural communication 615 0$aFamily reunions 676 $a306.874/2 700 $aCornillot$b Jeanine$f1965-$01868302 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953155803321 996 $aFamily sentence$94476168 997 $aUNINA