Download or read book Infinite Refuge written by Virgil Suàrez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ñSo much left behind. Our house. Our family. Our lives together,î Virgil Suàrez writes in his memoir of life as a Cuban refugee. Beginning with the saga of the balseros that unfolds before SuàrezÍs eyes, when, at his motherÍs insistence, he turns on the TV and witnesses a confrontation between the Coast Guard and the Cuban rafters, Suàrez draws his memories of his family and friendsÍ leaving Cuba and ties these through verse and prose to his experience of exile. Rather than decry the politics of persecution under a dictatorship or celebrate the freedoms enjoyed in the United States, Suàrez instead brings to life his memories on the page. Suàrez writes, ñThose old ghosts of places we knew, lived in moments we survived, those are the things IÍm afraid of.î But those old ghosts populate his stories: the shadows of his extended family standing on the other side of the glass at the departure gate in the airport, the next-door neighbor of his childhood with whom he plays firing squad, his motherÍs last wish to return to Cuba, and his promise to his father not to return until a change comes to Cuba. SuàrezÍs poignant tales of family disintegration, culture shock and separation are only matched by his examples of people struggling for the strength to live their modest lives and to preserve their memories in the face of the challenges of the new society around them. He sees in the raft people, in the dissidents, in the newly-minted American citizens? the same creative will that launched his own career as a writer.

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