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When Maja was five, her Cuban family left the Caribbean for London, taking with them only a single, haunting memory of a woman’s eerie yet enthralling singing at their farewell party. Nearly twenty years later, Maja herself has become a singer, living in London and pregnant, yet she remains tormented by the presence she calls ‘Cuba’—the lingering echo of her childhood, her heritage, and the unresolved questions of self‑perception that accompany her journey as a young woman in a foreign land.
First publish date: 2007
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Helen Oyeyemi
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