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Mango Rain
Dr. Berta Isabel Arias emigrated from Havana, Cuba in 1957 and has lived most of her life in the Chicago area. She has been writing short stories and poetry from a very young age; Mango Rain is her first full-length novel. Dr.Arias is a Professor Emeritus in World Languages and it was through a U.S. licensed academic trip with college students in 2004 to Cuba that she was inspired to write Mango Rain.
Cuba is 90 miles—and a lifetime away from the U.S. mainland. America and the world are fascinated by and bewildered about life in mysterious, exotic Cuba. Mango Rain is a novel of discovery, passion, and intrigue as twin sisters, separated at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution as infants, are reunited as adult women. Take the journey with Anaís and Isa as they exchange places and lives and explore what it means to live on either side of the political and emotionally charged divide which has existed between the U.S. and Cuba for more than half a century.
Although fiction, much of Mango Rain is based on Dr. Arias’ family history with its strong Cuban and American influences.
Cuba is 90 miles—and a lifetime away from the U.S. mainland. America and the world are fascinated by and bewildered about life in mysterious, exotic Cuba. Mango Rain is a novel of discovery, passion, and intrigue as twin sisters, separated at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution as infants, are reunited as adult women. Take the journey with Anaís and Isa as they exchange places and lives and explore what it means to live on either side of the political and emotionally charged divide which has existed between the U.S. and Cuba for more than half a century.
Although fiction, much of Mango Rain is based on Dr. Arias’ family history with its strong Cuban and American influences.
378 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 5, 2011
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