Revolutions : Sitric Books : 9781903305133 : 1903305136 : 04 Nov 2004 : Marysol Castillo is a Cuban-American girl living in Miami. Haunted by the loss of their homeland, her parents and friends 'imagine their little two-bedroom homes to be Santa Clara cattle ranches, many-acre estates, and Marianao mansions'. Marysol sees herself as 'an American with no pedigree, a nonentity trying to make herself into a somebody'. But when she begins to ask her grandmother Josefina about the past, she embarks on an emotional journey that will shatter her sense of who she really is. Josefina recalls the glamour of 1950s Havana and meeting her husband, the dapper Rogelio, wooing women with his 'puppydog eyes'. Here also is the seductive and superstitious housemaid Consuelo, a devout believer in the magic powers of the santeros. But what is the true nature of the family's relationship with the charismatic Ruben Castro, brother of Fidel, and 'architect of the Revolution'? Set against the ferment of Castro