Derek Palacio. (2016). The Mortifications: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Derek Palacio. 2016. The Mortifications: A Novel. Books on Tape.

Derek Palacio, The Mortifications: A Novel. Books on Tape, 2016.

Derek Palacio. The Mortifications: A Novel. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2016.

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Derek Palacio’s stunning, mythic novel marks the arrival of a fresh voice and a new chapter in the history of 21st century Cuban-American literature.
In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boatlift. Uxbal Encarnación—father, husband, political insurgent—refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami’s familiar heat, Soledad pushes further north into the stark, wintry landscape of Hartford, Connecticut. There, in the long shadow of their estranged patriarch, now just a distant memory, the exiled mother and her children begin a process of growth and transformation.
Each struggles and flourishes in their own way: Isabel, spiritually hungry and desperate for higher purpose, finds herself tethered to death and the dying in uncanny ways. Ulises is bookish and awkwardly tall, like his father, whose memory haunts and shapes the boy's thoughts and desires. Presiding over them both is Soledad. Once consumed by her love for her husband, she begins a tempestuous new relationship with a Dutch tobacco farmer. But just as the Encarnacións begin to cultivate their strange new way of life, Cuba calls them back. Uxbal is alive, and waiting.
Breathtaking, soulful, and profound, The Mortifications is an intoxicating family saga and a timely, urgent expression of longing for one's true homeland.

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     July 4, 2016
     At the heart of O’Henry-winner Palacio’s debut novel are the twins Ulises and Isabel Encarnacion. The twins’ mother, Soledad, has fled Cuba with her children during the Mariel boat-lift of 1980, leaving their rebel father, Uxbal, behind in rural Buey Arriba. The three exiles settle in Connecticut, where Soledad takes up with a Dutch horticulturist who grows Cuban tobacco, but she, like her children, cannot escape the past. All three family members are defined by their longing for something lost. Ulises, especially, longs for something indefinable, something he wonders if he ever had in the first place, and which he carries as a burden anyway. A twisted promise Uxbal asks Isabel to keep drives the girl deep into Catholic mysticism. She seeks sacrifice, choosing first one martyrdom and then another, until she goes missing. Ulises is a natural with the Dutchman’s soil, and he excels in Latin and the classics at school. He doesn’t remember much about home, but when Soledad falls victim to cancer and asks him to find Isabel, Ulises returns to Cuba. In fact, all the characters end up where they began—in Cuba—their journeys as mythic as geographic. Perhaps strongest of all in this winning debut are the scenes set in Cuba: these humid and colorful pages sing with empathy. The orphans, rebels, and old women he describes breathe with vital intensity. Agent: PJ Mark, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.

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   • content: When a communist-minded father tries to block his young daughter from leaving the island of Cuba with her mother and brother, his wife puts a knife to the throat of their son--saying she'll kill him if her husband doesn't let them go. This is the vivid opening scene in a novel of love, loss, and nostalgia. William DeMeritt's sombre tone evokes the ups and downs of this modern family torn apart. Soledad and her children, Isabel and Ulises, journey to America on the Mariel Boatlift, leaving Uxbal Encarnaci�n, husband and father, behind. From the humidity of Cuba to the snow of Connecticut, listeners travel emotional and geographic distances, falling under the spell of these fascinating characters. M.R. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
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     Starred review from December 1, 2016
     

     A mother, Soledad, flees Cuba, abandoning her revolutionary husband Uxmal and absconding with their 12-year-old twins Ulises and Isabel. She bypasses Miami for Hartford, CT, finding work as a court stenographer, making her the transcriber of other people's words. Although Uxmal is always in her thoughts, Soledad eventually takes a lover, Henri Willems, a farmer of Dutch ancestry who attempts to cultivate Habano (Cuban) tobacco in Connecticut. Ulises, a behemoth 6'7" teen, commits his mind to college books and his body to Henri's tobacco fields. Isabel commits her voice to religion, taking a vow of silence. Longing and desperation reunite the estranged parents and children in a remote Cuban village, where each--including Henri--will need to confront history, culture, familial bonds, and weakened bodies, all of which are on the verge of total collapse. In this atmospheric and profound work, Palacio takes on life--the family's name is Encarnacion, as in incarnation, made flesh--and death--mortifications marking the death of that flesh--and produces an enviable, triumphant debut. Narrator William DeMeritt's growly tones perfectly capture the trapped energy and the latent truths embodied and sacrificed by Palacio's complex characters. VERDICT With the recent opening of U.S.-Cuba relations, travelers and international fiction enthusiasts will want to explore Cuba further through resonating literature.--Terry Hong, Smithsonian BookDragon, Washington, DC

     Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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