![]() Abuela, the Zamora family matriarch, is an excellent chef, but due to failing health, has yielded cooking duties to Caridad (Cari) Zamora, her oldest daughter and Arturo’s mother. They opened a restaurant, La Cocina de la Isla, which, 19 years later, has become an institution in their Canal Grove neighborhood. When he becomes lovesick over a Spanish girl named Carmen Sánchez, and when a ruthless developer named Wilfrido Pipo plots to raze Arturo's family’s restaurant, Arturo must find the courage to speak up or lose everything he values.Īrturo’s maternal grandparents-Abuela and Abuelo-left Cuba in 1979 to settle in Miami. ![]() ![]() For 13-year-old Arturo Zamora, the novel’s narrator, this is usually a season of lazy pastimes, but surprises are in store. It is the beginning of summer in Canal Grove, a Cuban enclave in modern-day Miami. ![]()
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