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Here’s the review:
Here’s the review:
Advanced Review – Uncorrected Proof
Issue: October 15, 2012
Secuestro.
Wainwright, Katie (Author)
Nov 2012. 200 p. Livingston, hardcover, $30.00. (9781604891010). Livingston, paperback, $17.95.
(9781604891027).
One minute, Gretchen Van Nuys, teenage daughter of a U.S. sugar company executive, is recuperating in a
hospital room overlooking the grandstand where Cuban president Batista greets his welcoming
countrymen. The next, she is in the streets, desperately trying to reach her father in the aftermath of an
assassination attempt on Batista. In the ensuing chaos, she is kidnapped by forces loyal to revolutionary
leader Fidel Castro and for the next week remains their prisoner and pawn as she is held for ransom while
the disorganized rebels determine what to do with her. Taken from one jungle outpost to another, Gretchen
experiences extreme brutality and unbearable deprivation, afraid for her own life and the future of her
country. But her physical wounds are nothing compared to the psychic injuries she sustains as she
summons the courage to witness the history unfolding around her. In this sequel to Cuba on My Mind
(2010), Wainwright continues to bring life essential events in the past of her native country, Cuba.
— Carol Haggas
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