02207cam a2200397 i 4500 1277730528 TxAuBib 20240522120000.0 240110s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024000566 9798885799744 (OCoLC)1428822595 TxAuBib rda Dovalpage, Teresa, 1966-, author. Last seen in Havana / Teresa Dovalpage. Large print edition. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, 2024. 501 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Havana Mystery ; 5 Thorndike Press large print mystery series "Newly widowed baker Mercedes Spivey flies from Miami to her native Cuba in 2019 to care for her ailing paternal grandmother. Mercedes's life has been shaped by loss, beginning with the mysterious unsolved disappearance of her mother when Mercedes was a little girl. Returning to Cuba revives Mercedes's hopes of finding her mother as she attempts to piece together the few scraps of information she has. Could her mother still be alive? Thirty-three years earlier, in 1986, an American college student with endless political optimism falls deliriously in love with a handsome Cuban soldier while on a spontaneous visit to the island. She decides to stay permanently, but soon discovers that nothing is as it seems in Havana. The two women's stories proceed in parallel as Mercedes gets closer to the truth about her mother, uncovering shocking family secrets in the process."-- Provided by publisher. 20240522. Cuban Americans Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Women Cuba Fiction. Havana (Cuba) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft Large print books. lcgft Havana Mystery ; 5. Thorndike Press large print mystery series. TXKPL