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Christina Saralegui Website

Christina Saralegui Website

Cuban-American author Christina Diaz Gonzalez elaborates upon her parents' experience as child refugees from Castro's Cuba in her early teen historical novel The Red Umbrella (Alfred A Knopf, 2010). Readers experience the Cuban communist revolution and Operation Pedro Pan, which relocated Cuban children to the United States, through the eyes of feisty fourteen-year-old Lucia.

Summary of Christina Diaz Gonzalez' The Red Umbrella

Lucia Álvarez dreams of celebrating her quinceañera, or 15th birthday party, with her family and friends. Yet Castro’s Communist revolution is turning the world upside down for Lucia and everyone else in Cuba.

As Lucia’s banker-father comes under army surveillance and her best friend Ivette joins the Jovenes, the Castro youth core, Lucia's life begins to change.