She tells her sisters, and they devise a way to send their children to Florida on a boat, while keeping this plan from their husbands.īetty Ann Johnson and the Montero sisters may be on opposite sides of a life-threatening conflict, but they share the same heart when it comes to protecting their children. At the same time in Cuba, Lola is asked to cook for the Soviet soldiers amassing there and accidentally witnesses a Soviet missile installation.
Fearing that the Soviet presence in Cuba has become a tangible threat, she and a small band of military spouses, without telling their husbands, put together an evacuation plan for their children. Sisters Lola, Chita, and Rosita are the proud keepers of the Montero name in Matanzas, Cuba.īetty Ann gets wind that military preparations are ramping up for something more than just practice drills. Betty Ann Johnson is an African American military spouse on an Air Force base outside Washington, DC.
The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths.Transient Desires by Donna Leon (No 30 in the Comm.A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch.Home Front Lines by Brenda Sparks Prescott.The book sent by Bookouture for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley. People put together will not follow rules however much rules are in place and indiscretions and breaking of these rules will happen.
Not that the husband's did not have their own secrets as well. Taking their children's lives into their hands they planned all this meticulously. The story opened an aspect of life that was hitherto not even thinkable to me - the American women planned evacuation of their children, the Cuban women planned the same to send their children across the waters but this was the important part - without the knowledge of their husbands. So many rules, written and unwritten and all equally humiliating to these women who strive to live within the rules, uphold their dignity and at the same time not endanger the jobs of their husbands who are totally beholden to the white folk (particularly the wives) The restrictions, the divisions of color demarcate every part of the women's lives.
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