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It comes 25 years after her first novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sugar Island.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On July 25, Books &amp; Books in Coral Gables served as the first leg of a book tour that will include stops in New York, Gainesville, New Jersey, Tallahassee and Orlando.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s quite a novel\u2026makes us very proud to present someone like this,\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.booksandbooks.com\/localbestsellers\/213657\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cristina Nosti<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, director of events &amp; programming at Books &amp; Books.\u00a0 \u201c[Seeing] young people react to the authors and to what they&#8217;re hearing never ceases to be magical.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Set in the 1990s, the novel takes place in a fictional suburb<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paladero<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in Havana, Cuba. It follows the life of Yuri, a teenager living with her strict and religious aunt Ruth in the midst of the country\u2019s worst economic crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the upheaval, she comes face to face with Mariela, a 34-year-old artist who claims to be her sister. Mariela, who spent the last three decades in the United States, said Ruth banished her from the Caribbean country when she was four through Operation Pedro Pan, a program that sent more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was interesting to write about a different period of time in Cuban history that I didn&#8217;t live through,\u201d said the 63-year-old Lamazares. \u201cI migrated when I was 13\u2026so I write from that kind of place of disorientation and trauma, but also freedom and possibility.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book takes off when Mariela, who spent her childhood in American orphanages, attempts to exact her revenge on Ruth. Yuri is stuck between loving and loathing her older sister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The novel is full of betrayal, homesickness and broken family ties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[Ivonne] is able to express these two sisters\u2019 struggle, in the backdrop of the immigration at the same time,\u201d said Mitchell Kaplan, founder of Books &amp; Books. \u201cIt&#8217;s very compelling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lamazares took a decade to finish <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tilting House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> because she was focused on her teaching career at Miami Dade College that lasted more than three decades. But<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/professor-to-retire-after-three-decade-long-teaching-career-at-mdc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after she retired in 2023,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the former English professor, who taught at Kendall and Hialeah campuses, was able to tackle the book full-time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her husband, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/librarian-poet-and-faculty-union-representative-retires-from-west-campus\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Steve Kronen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a poet and a retired MDC librarian, helped her massage the final draft so she could complete the 304-page novel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The book is receiving positive press from <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/arts-culture\/2025-07-22\/ivonne-lamazares-thetiltinghouse-migration-novel\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WLRN<\/span><\/a>,<\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/book-review-tilting-house-ivonne-lamazares-1c1318b42038df845e287d279be10ebe\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Associated Press<\/span><\/a><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a 4.75 star rating (out of 5) on the popular literature website <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/220689446-the-tilting-house\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">goodreads.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHer writing is not only transformative but it will transport you to different places,\u201d said Preston Allen, a South Florida author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/north-campus-professor-publishes-psychological-thriller-i-disappeared-them\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eight novels<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tilting House<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is available at Barnes &amp; Noble, Amazon, Books &amp; Books, Indiebound and Books-A-Million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i>Click<\/i><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.us19.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4fc6146412415baee32007fd7&amp;id=b5cd3712dc\"><i> here<\/i><\/a><\/span><i> to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, The Hammerhead. 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