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    To The Other Side
    To The Other Side
    To The Other Side
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    To The Other Side

    By Julianne Chadwick

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    Maria Elvira is a strong and courageous woman born in pre-revolutionary Cuba with a privileged background, living happily with her husband until they are forced to flee an oppressive regime.

    ‘To The Other Side’ is a chronicle of upheaval and mistrust—of youth and aging, of life and death, of danger and survival.

    It is written in a seamless mix of prose and poetry that captures the essence of a Caribbean culture transplanted to another way of life while still true to itself.

    ‘To The Other Side’ is above all the story of Maria Elvira, life seen through her eyes. A portrait of a young woman caught up—on the outside—in the tumult of Cuba’s history whilst the effects of her own father’s absence at an early age runs deep.

    Maria Elvira was never able to forgive or forget that first abandonment and watched for signs in all the men that met her life thereafter. Castro, himself, is one of the many in her line of fire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJulianne Chadwick
    Release dateNov 6, 2013
    ISBN9781938397707
    To The Other Side
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    Julianne Chadwick

    Julianne Chadwick originally trained as a contemporary dance -choreographer, movement psycho-therapist and teacher. Although born in England, Julianne has spent most of her adult life living and working in other countries - Israel, Spain, Mexico, Malaysia and Thailand, to name a few.Julianne has always written stories and poetry, honing her craft, and is now dedicating herself to writing full time, using her own life's many experiences and extensive interaction with different cultures as the fertile soil from which her writing will grow and blossom.As with 'To The Other Side' Julianne is happiest experimenting with a way of writing in which prose and poetry meet - and the division between them ceases to exist, matching her own very personal view of life in which the prosaic becomes the poetic.Julianne resides in the south of Mexico.

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      To The Other Side - Julianne Chadwick

      To The Other Side

      Julianne Chadwick

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      Copyright ©2013, Julianne Chadwick

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      Pagan Writers Press

      Houston, Texas

      ISBN: 978-1-938397-70-7

      Edited by Tara Chevrestt

      Cover by Angelique Mroczka

      Cover Photo by Kylli Spare

      http://paganwriterspress.com

      Dedication

      To Gloria Fors de Ferro, whose life inspired what follows …

      Table of Contents

      La Mamachi — Chapter I

      The Bridge — Chapter II

      Swans — Chapter III

      The Suitcase — Chapter IV

      Listening to the Radio — Chapter V

      Freedom — Chapter VI

      The Elections — Chapter VII

      Miami — Chapter VIII

      The Arrival — Chapter IX

      Pig Roast — Chapter X

      Sunday — Chapter XI

      About the Author

      La Mamachi — Chapter I

      María Elvira sat at one end and María’s mother Mamachi sat at the other end of the great table that entertained the plates of all nineteen children, the ghosts of two no longer alive and the father who still was. Elsewhere. Two new children re-born at a later date to another. Mother. Whose name no one cared to remember.

      María’s own mother, Mamachi, a beautiful mother. Waved black hair to her waist. Coiled like a snake in a French twist at the nape of her long swan-like neck had been a beautiful mother to all her children. Without exception. There was none fairer. And in grief, she almost killed herself with the sadness of the eventual loss of

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