The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba's Greatest Abolitionist

By Margarita Engle

Tula fights for freedom and education for herself, and ultimatelyfor women, slaves and dissenters, in Margarita Engle's poetic story of the nineteenth-century Cuban abolitionist and writer, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.


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