The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist, by Margarita EngleRead about the other entries on the list.
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, known as Tula, was a real-life poet, abolitionist, and feminist in nineteenth-century Cuba. This historical novel in verse chronicles Tula’s young life growing up in a then-Spanish colony, rejecting an arranged marriage, and becoming a lifelong fighter of injustice. Engle’s simultaneously tender and powerful verse is the perfect vehicle to introduce readers to this incredible woman.
My Book, The Movie: The Lightning Dreamer.
--Marshal Zeringue
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