The Tilting House

The Tilting HouseBy: Ivonne Lamazares Two estranged sisters with a complicated past and an acrimonious present reunite in 1990s Cuba to confront the riddle of family amid the scars of political upheaval In the summer of 1993, Yuri, a teenage orphan, is living with her strict, religious aunt Ruth in a Havana suburb when Mariela, a thirty four year old artist, arrives from the United States with a shocking revelation. She claims to be Yuri's sister, insisting that she

First he tries on his dad's clothes

" It was to Milena that he revealed his most intimate self and

When a woman reports her family has been stolen

and shared heartbreaks in her family

an obscure 19th century writer

and the clients and her mother suggest them all: parts

four-lane storytelling

Dog help me

she begins to question her husband’s motives—and his version of events

there might be no way out

Mikayla is a wrestler

with blackened teeth and bouffant hair