Sour Life by Pablo Omar Zaragoza,Susan Giffin

By Pablo Omar Zaragoza,Susan Giffin

A Cuban kin patriarch, past due in existence, narrates bitter existence, ancient fiction surrounding his family’s struggle to maintain democracy in that Caribbean island country; their final lack of their loved place of origin and emigration to the USA; his provider as a eco-friendly Beret within the Vietnam conflict; and next scientific provider in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Underlying those efforts is his fight to thwart drug trafficking and locate the CIA killer of his Laotian spouse and unborn baby.

Revisionist historical past dominates the 1st part on Cuba and takes the reader world wide because the patriarch fulfills his venture to carry healthcare and hunt the killer, finally finishing in war-torn Nicaragua, the place he exacts his revenge. He descends into one careless supply of substances and lands in federal criminal on a five-year sentence. That part departs from fiction and provides an eye-opening inside of examine the issues within the U.S. felony justice method, as does his re-entry first via a midway apartment after which again into the true international the place he back struggles to discover his rightful position and fix relationships together with his kin.

From starting to finish, bitter existence is touching, well-balanced old fiction, jam-packed with romance and revenge, drama and resolution: a true page-turner.

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