Pretty good yarn of a Cuban-American saga, but a gritty story, requiring endurance from the reader as the characters make their way from one misery to another, struggling to improve their lot in life and surviving by sweat of brow and sturdiness of soul in a climate that makes everyone hot and uncomfortable. No rags-to-riches people here, but, reader, persevere, there is an interesting, unexpected and satisfying conclusion and some Cuban revolutionary history too.