![]() ![]() ![]() Their lives run parallel and intersect as each tries to answer questions about truth and the path ahead within a regime that crushes any opposition, murders dissidents, and punishes their families while stealing babies to sell to parents with accepted political views. Daniel is a white Texan who wants to be a photojournalist, not an oilman Ana is trying to work her way to respectability as a hotel maid her brother, Rafael, wants to erase memories of an oppressive boys’ home and Puri is a loving caregiver for babies awaiting adoption-together they provide alternating third-person lenses for viewing Spain during one of its most brutally repressive periods. ![]() ![]() Sepetys ( Salt to the Sea, 2016, etc.) begins her novel in 1957. The Spanish Civil War lasted from 1936-1939, but Franco held Spain by its throat for 36 years. The pitiless dictatorship of Francisco Franco examined through the voices of four teenagers: one American and three Spaniards. ![]()
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