|
|
|  | | Blessed by Thunder
Amazon.com Review
On the surface, this beautifully written memoir is riveting simply because it revolves around a young girl growing up in Cuba during the Communist revolution. When Flor Fernandez Barrios's parents consider fleeing Castro's regime, they are labeled gusanos, or traitors. Neighbors shame and taunt them. At the age of 10, Barrios is sent away along with thousands of other children to a work camp, where she is forced into hard labor, picking tobacco and sugar cane to offset the U.S. embargo.
Offering a striking child's-eye view of the Cuban revolution, Barrios begins her memoir with her birth during a hurricane, which convinced her curandera grandmother that the child would be a spiritual healer like her. When Barrios was a year old, Castro's 1956 Radio Rebelde broadcasts disrupted evening domino games in her hometown in Santa Clara province. In 1958, her father was falsely accused of being a Castro sympathizer and detained. Though he was returned to his family, their lives were soon upended: "agrarian reform" forced her grandfather to give his land to Castro's govern | |  | | Candela
Flor Fernandez Barrios creates a story that in itself becomes a dance. But it is also a living tapestry of the world Candela enters in her search for and discovery of her whole self.
p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">font size="2">span style="font-family: Verdana; color: black">Candela. It’s the name Caridad hears called out at night. Candela. Her own nickname, “Fire”, for the fire that destroyed her family home at the time of her birth. But now Caridad is 48. Her marriage has fallen apart. Her career in pharmacy has hit a wall. And she’s haunted by her roots, literally. Though born in /span>st1:country-region>st1:place>span style="font-family: Verdana; color: black">Cuba/span>/st1:place>/st1:country-region>span style="font- | |  | | The Mask of Oya
Fernandez Barrios presents us with the gift of her spiritual wisdom, learned over a lifetime of deep and conscious practice. -- Faith Conlon, co-editor of A Woman Alone and Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo
div class="productDescriptionWrapper">Flor Fernandez Barrios continues her story of personal growth that she began in i>Blessed by Thunder,/i> with this new book, recounting her education and experiences as a psychotherapist and spiritual healer. She blends traditional methods (taught to her by her grandmother and by a wise Yucatan curandero) with modern psychology practices to bring balanced, hopeful methods of treatment for those in her care. "The Mask of Oya" is a profound, thoughtful journey that will remain with the reader. Dr Fernandez Barrios' gentle, sympathetic discour |
|
|
|
Look Away Silence
by Edward Patterson
|
 Martin Powers wanted an ironing board for Christmas. Instead, he got . . . Matthew Kieler, a non-returnable gift, but a gift that kept on giving. A powerful tale of survival, compassion and unapologetic love in the time of AIDS. |
Member BookAds
|
|
|
|
