Natalia Sylvester

"When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero--while the whole country is watching"-- Senator Anthony Ruiz is running for president. Throughout his successful political career he has always had his daughter's vote, but this presidential campaign brings a whole new level of scrutiny...

Todo el mundo sabe que vuelves a casa es una historia, o un entramado de historias, acerca de las fronteras: entre México y Estados Unidos, entre el pasado y el presente, entre la esperanza y la desesperación, entre el amor y el desamor, entre la vida y la muerte, entre la realidad y la ficción. Sylvester nos regala una saga familiar que es a la vez épica e íntima, un inolvidable relato del ilimitado poder del amor y la redención. Con gran destreza...

The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he's already dead--an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day. Her husband, Martin, still unforgiving for having been abandoned by his father years ago, confesses that he never knew the old man had died. So Omar asks Isabel for the impossible: persuade Omar's family--especially his wife, Elda--to let him redeem himself. Isabel and Martin settle into married life in a Texas border town,...