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Original Title:	Love and Ghost Letters
ISBN:	0312340478 (ISBN13: 9780312340476)
Edition Language:	English

Love and Ghost Letters

Chantel Acevedo

Paperback | Pages: 310 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 99 Users | 14 Reviews

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Title	:	Love and Ghost Letters
Author	:	Chantel Acevedo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 310 pages
Published	:	September 19th 2006 by St. Martins Press-3PL (first published September 1st 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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On the day she is born, Josefina Navarro's nursemaid foretells misfortune. But for the young socialite in pre-Castro Cuba, her life in Havana with her Sergeant of police father is idyllic. That is, until she falls in love with Lorenzo, a penniless man who takes her away to the impoverished town of El Cotorro, and her father disowns her. Josefina comes to wish her father dead but regrets it after the Sergeant is assumed killed in a student-led riot. One day, mysterious letters from the Sergeant begin to arrive, telling her the truth about his past. The ghostly letters become her link to love.

Set in Miami and Cuba and covering nearly fifty years of that island's history, Love and Ghost Letters unfolds the lives of the members of the Navarro-Concepción families in the patterns and permutations of memory, and conjures a Cuban setting that evokes mysticism and magic.

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Ratings: 3.79 From 99 Users | 14 Reviews

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The boy in this novel, Lalo, reminds me very much of boys I went to school with in Miami.

I loved this book. The story is the powerful and bizarre link between a father and a daughter and their attempts to be there for each other despite the controversial historical events they lived and despite their own toughness. The language is very poetic and vibrant; it's thought-provoking and engages you in the drama to the point in which your feel the emotions as if they were your own. I like that the book doesn't try to justify "wrong" but accepts it as a natural part of life. Embracing

Lovely, moving book about Cuba before and during the Cuban Revolution. At its heart, it is about the relationship between a father and daughter. The Sergeant was my favorite character, and I found myself wishing there were more sections from his point of view. The Sergeant's only daughter, Josefina, marries a ne'er-do-well named Lorenzo against her father's wishes. They move to a rural town, have two children, and live in poverty due to Lorenzo's sporadic jobs and constant philandering.



Thanks, Laura, for this one. It revealed my ignorance of cuban history, but was unique and, at times, very moving.

M. Acevedo is a truly gifted writer who welcomes you to walk into each character's world. You are transported to preCastro Cuba from page 1. Anyone can enjoy this well-crafted novel, but if you happen to be Cuban or Cuban American-- you must read this beautiful novel.

This book utilized an omniscient 3rd person narrator to tell the story of a Cuban family's struggles from 1933-1959 and also a brief epilogue ("years later"). There are also embedded letters that reveal much of the father's backstory. The narrator came off as genuinely Cuban. Phrases like "Wednesday boy" and "never fifteen" added authenticity. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.