Everything you need to understand or teach Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos.
Lydia Espana represents the common immigrant who comes to America with dreams fertilized by a healthy dose of Hollywood fare. As a young girl in Cuba she meets Errol Flynn and she imagines that in America, the land of the movies themselves, she can meet many more famous people, and among them, she would have her place.
It is these unreasonable dreams along with her meager inheritance that are the first to go...
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