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The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
A Novel
Contributors
Foreword by Gary Soto
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Irish American Nelson O’Brien fell passionately in love with the poetess Mariela Montez while photographing the ravages of battle in Mariela’s native Cuba during the Spanish-American War. After marrying, they moved to the United States to start a new life, settling in a small Pennsylvania town where Nelson took over the Jewel Box Movie Theater. Together, they had a remarkable fifteen children: fourteen daughters and one lone son.
In Oscar Hijuelos’s The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien, the lives, loves, and tragedies of this sprawling Irish Cuban family unfold. Over the course of a century, each member moves in and out of each other’s lives, traversing Cuba, New York, California, Alaska, and Ireland, while Margarita—the Montez O’Brien’s eldest daughter—ruminates on the nature of femininity, sex, love, and earthly happiness. And as Margarita learns and grows in an overwhelmingly female environment, she can’t help but contrast her experiences with those of Emilio, her intensely masculine brother, whose B-movie career in the 1950s has left him adrift and frustrated, with little hope of success.
Lush and gorgeously written, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien is a masterwork by one of America’s greatest writers. Reckoning with cultural assimilation and complex family dynamics, the novel elicits tears and laughter while tenderly revealing the bounteous heart and exhilarating adventures of a warm, passionate family.
Includes a Reading Group Guide.
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"One finishes The Fourteen Sisters reluctantly, the way one finishes a long letter from a beloved family member..."New York Times
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"Exuberant, richly detailed."The New Yorker
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"Nobody writes about sensuality, nostalgia and matters of the heart more exuberantly than Oscar Hijuelos."Chicago Tribune
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"A marvelous novel...[Hijuelos's] range is impressive, his storytelling fluid...his scope exuberant and full of life."San Francisco Chronicle
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"Matchless, soaring prose."Publishers Weekly
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"A beautiful pastorale, loosely based on the idea of the limited text implied by photographs, in which the lives of 17 characters are developed . . . Hijuelos composes women's stories with a loving hand."Library Journal
- On Sale
- Jul 16, 2024
- Page Count
- 496 pages
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- ISBN-13
- 9781538722237
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