As a (half) Puerto Rican who grew up in the states, I really connected with this book. It made me think directly about the women of my own family and how they each connect to their/our heritage and history in different ways. It also felt really good to read about a family that really felt like mine and to think about and learn a bit about Cuban history, which is not my own history, but still feels very significant because of the (cultural and physical) closeness of our islands.

This is a series of loosely connected vignettes and I liked some of them more than others and some of the connections between the stories were perhaps a bit tenuous, but I really enjoyed this read. It a was pretty quick read and it was emotional in all the right ways.