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Derek Palacio's stunning, mythic book marks the introduction of a brand new voice and a fresh chapter in the history of 21st-century Cuban American books. In 1980 a rural Cuban family is torn apart through the Mariel Boatlift. Uxbal Encarnación - father, husband, politics insurgent - refuses to leave behind the brand new ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife, Soledad, calls for young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with these to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promises of a better life. But rather than settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar temperature, Soledad pushes further north in to the stark, wintry landscape of Hartford, Connecticut. There, in the long darkness with their estranged patriarch, now simply a distant storage area, the exiled mother and her children get started a process of development and transformation. Each problems and flourishes in their own way: Isabel, spiritually famished and in need of higher purpose, confirms herself tethered to fatality and the dying in uncanny ways. Ulises is bookish and awkwardly extra tall, like his father, whose storage area haunts and figures the boy's thoughts and wants. Presiding over them both is Soledad. Once consumed by her love for her husband, she starts a tempestuous new marriage with a Dutch cigarette farmer. But just as the Encarnacións get started to cultivate their odd new life-style, Cuba telephone calls them again. Uxbal is alive...and holding out. Breathtaking, soulful, and profound, The Mortifications is an intoxicating family saga and a timely, urgent expression of longing for one's true homeland.
