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Set in 1970s Chicago, a radiant story of personal and political revolution within a tight-knit Puerto Rican community. Over two thousand miles away from their ancestral island, Rosalinda Acevedo and her friends must adhere to their parents’ traditional expectations for Puerto Rican girls: Do...

It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of others, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii.