The short story Raining Backwards, which later was followed by a novel
with the same name, describes the feelings and crazy ideas of an elderly
Cuban woman, mother and grandmother, who came to the United States in the
southern part of Florida, after the Cuban revolution, at the end of the
1950's or beginning of the 1960's, and who now wants to go back to Cuba
to die and be buried, next to her Cuban relatives, in Havana. She
therefore convinces her grandson to help her build a boat in order to be
able to float the 90 miles back to Cuba. |