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 enlarge | Author: Eduardo Santiago
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 571154
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0316014125
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780316014120
ASIN: 0316014125
Publication Date: July 3, 2006
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 An enjoyable novel November 3, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I liked the book very much. It is a good portrait of three cuban women in exile and their relationship with each other in their new country. The book jumps back to their lives in Cuba several times and highlights the social fiber of a cuban small town and the pressures on women. In this way the challenges of functioning in a new society while still maintaining their values and idiosyncracies is very well highlighted. Those values are not always valid and they get in the way of their friendship and reading of these ladies trying desperate to hold onto them is bitter-sweet.
My favorite character is Graciela. She is striving for freedom and independence and it is a lot of fun to read how finally she manages to achieve it, in this country.
I saw a little bit of myself in the women. If you are a cuban female read the book, just might just see yourself also. Alicia
A good airplane read... September 12, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I purchased this novel after reading a review in Latina magazine. After experimenting with several modern novels in Spanish, and my frustration at reading current best-sellers translated into Spanish, I decided to try my hand at novels tackling Latin culture written in English. The result was an interesting novel that idealizes aspects of Latin culture and gives insight to the Cuban-Amerian plight.
If Life Were Like a Telenovela August 30, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Far from her tropical home, toiling in a New Jersey doll factory, Graciela Altamira longs for the same happy ending that seems always to occur in her beloved telenovelas--a kiss powerful enough to erase the sins of her past and the haunting memory of her homeland. (summary by the Latino Recommended Reading List from the Association of American Publishers's * Publishing Latino Voices for America Task Force)
It's getting really favorable reviews:
"A feast of splendidly drawn characters-of anxious dreamers, lost souls, and gritty survivors-Tomorrow They Will Kiss is a work of gentle loveliness, sometimes searing and often hilarious."
--Ann Louise Bardach, author of Cuba Confidential
"Eduardo Santiago has captured the voice of Cuban womanhood in all its whimsical, musical beauty. This is a compelling and compassionate story."
--Charles Fleming, author of After Havana and The Ivory Coast
Kiss me again! August 4, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Eduardo Santiago writes an outrageously complex and interesting story told from three different perspectives. If only we could know what three different people think about the same events in real life! The characters are compelling, funny and sad, all at the same time. A great read.
Entertaining but Underpinned by Seriousness July 29, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Reviewed by Linda Benninghoff for Reader Views (7/06)
"Tomorrow They Will Kiss" is entertaining and fast-moving but underpinned by seriousness. Its heroine, Graciela, a Cuban immigrant living in the U.S., watches telenovels and can't wait for the romantic scenes. So do her two friends, Caridad and Imperio.
Having cheated on her husband and left him, Graciela is still dreaming of finding the right man. Graciela's character is intriguing. Although her turn of thought may appear humorous, the novel is set during the Cuban revolution and the three women who tell the story describe the gradual devastation of the country they love and dream of returning to--although they know this is unrealistic. The novel's historical descriptions are vivid. For example, while they are still in Cuba, a pact circulates that says, "We will kill our children before we let Fidel Castro, or any other Castro, take them away." It turns out that Castro does not do this, but the pact suggests that Castro is not just an economic threat but a threat to a way of life and the most deep-seated of values.
Graciela, the heroine, is independent, charming, sexually attractive and not afraid to defy convention if it does not seem meaningful to her. Her two friends contrast with her. Although Graciela seeks after men, the real drama in the book seems to be between the three women. At first I would have guessed the three were the best of friends, but then subtleties to the relationship begin to appear. In the end these subtleties are no longer subtle--but plain instances of jealousy, rivalry and almost cruelty. For example, Imperio describes Graciela as follows: "She can be very sentimental when it's convenient for her, when it's to her advantage, when she wants to get attention, when she wants to make everyone think she's a saint who walks upon the earth."
Will Graciela's daring bring her a better life? This is a question the book asks that the reader must answer. This book conveys something about the experience of Cuban immigrants as well as being interesting in its own right. I couldn't put it down. One episode of the novel unfolds into the next and meanings get deeper all the time.
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