Luisa de la Cueva and her family leave their home on a small Caribbean island and try to start a new life in the barrios of New York
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Paula Fox (1923―2017) was the author of Desperate Characters, The Widow’s Children, A Servant’s Tale, The God of Nightmares, Poor George, The Western Coast, and Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, among other books.
A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character. -- Vogue
[A] book I absolutely loved....Marvelously observed, horrific without being violent, modesty and reticent. -- Marina Warner, author of From the Beast to the Blonde
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