Family sentence : the search for my Cuban-revolutionary, prison-yard, mythic-hero, deadbeat dad / / Jeanine Cornillot

• Autore: Cornillot Jeanine <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Beacon Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/2
• Soggetto topico: Cuban Americans; Irish Americans; Fathers and daughters - United States; Children of prisoners - United States; Intercultural communication - United States; Family reunions - United States
• Soggetto geografico: Little Havana (Miami, Fla.) Biography; Philadelphia (Pa.) Biography
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Family sentence
• ISBN: 0-8070-0039-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910953155803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II