A review by bougainvillea
The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez

3.0

I liked this, but the second half was not as good as the first half. The depiction of Cuba in the early days of the Castro regime was really well done with lots of nuance and complexity. The depiction of Nebraska had no nuance at all. Everything and everyone was perfect. This is the US in the 1960's. Things were far from perfect.

People "drop their shoulders" a lot in this book. I'm not sure what that means.