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Eduardo F. Calcines was a child of Fidel Castro's Cuba; he was just three years old when Castro came to power in January 1959. After that, everything changed for his family and his country. When he was ten, his family applied for an exit visa to emigrate to America and he was ridiculed by his schoolmates and even his teachers for being a traitor to his country. But even worse, his father was sent to an agricultural reform camp to do hard labor as punishment for daring to want to leave Cuba. During the years to come, as he grew up in Glorytown, a neighborhood in the city of Cienfuegos, Eduardo hoped with all his might that their exit visa would be granted before he turned fifteen, the age at which he would be drafted into the army.
In this absorbing memoir, by turns humorous and heartbreaking, Eduardo Calcines recounts his boyhood and chronicles the conditions that led him to wish above all else to leave behind his beloved extended family and his home for a chance at a better future.
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EDUARDO F. CALCINES was born in Cuba in 1955 and immigrated to America at age fourteen. He is now a business owner, community activist, and news consultant. He lives in Tampa, Florida. Leaving Glorytown is his first book.
Eduardo's young life in 1950s Cuba is idyllic. But when Castro comes to power in 1959, things change radically. There are food shortages, and Eduardo's father is sent to a work camp. Then, after waiting many years for a visa to leave the country, the Calcines family is finally freed, shortly before Eduardo's fifteenth birthday. The author narrates his memoir in a calm, weary voice. He softens it for female relatives, makes it sound appropriately silly for boyhood friends, and uses a rough tone for uncles and the authorities. Humor leavens the harshness; his family lived through a terrible time, but he was a young boy, running with friends and getting into trouble. The story stirs strong emotions, but Calcines is never overly dramatic with his writing or his narration. An author interview is included. G.D. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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