In Cuba's "special period in times of peace" of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together.
Ages 12 Up. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.|||Grades 7-9. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.|||adolescent
Margarita Engle.
