Publisher's Synopsis
By the author of the award-winning book "Waiting on Zapote Street." In 1968, a day before his sixteenth birthday, Rodolfo Hernandez's mother forces him to leave Cuba alone to protect him from Castro's regime. But nothing could prepare him for his encounter with his uncle Arturo in Miami, a man who seemed to care little about Rodolfo or anyone else around him, a troubled man with a secret past who would take him years to understand.