{"product_id":"loosing-my-espanish-9781400078141","title":"Loosing My Espanish","description":"\u003cb\u003eA heartbreaking, funny, and brilliantly inventive novel with \"a narrator who erupts and disrupts the pavements of the Cuban-American experience by showing us that the most accurate, if not truthful, fact comes from the memory of the impassioned heart.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eHelena María Viramontes, author of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Feet of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A \u003c\/i\u003enovel that exists in a realm where beauty and memory and longing are one.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003cb\u003eJunot Díaz, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize- winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oscar Delossantos is about to lose his job as a teacher at a Jesuit high school in Chicago. Rather than go quietly, he embarks on a valiant last history lesson that chronicles the flight from Cuba of his makeshift extended family. Evoking the struggle between nostalgia and the realities of the Cuban Revolution with both grit and lyricism, he inspires his students with an altogether dazzling reinterpretation of the Cuban-American experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eH. G. CARRILLOS's work appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals and magazines. He was an associate professor at George Washington University. He died in 2020.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Anchor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492421603602,"sku":"9781400078141","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6c100fa5-b230-46d1-84ff-f4787ffcc777.jpg?v=1730589981","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/loosing-my-espanish-9781400078141","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}