02157cam a2200409 i 4500 1341220549 TxAuBib 20240625120000.0 240423t20242023||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9798885798846 hardcover (OCoLC)1430768924 TxAuBib rda Arias, John Manuel, author. Where There Was Fire / John Manuel Arias. Large print edition. [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2024] ©2023. 437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print diverse voices Thorndike Press large print diverse voices When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde's family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past. What unfolds is a story of a mother and daughter trying to forgive what they do not yet understand, and the mystery at the heart of one family's rupture, steeped in machismo, jealousy, labor uprisings, and the havoc wreaked by banana plantations in Central America. 20240625. Colonies Fiction. Imperialism Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Large print books. . Costa Rica History 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. fast Thorndike Press large print diverse voices. Thorndike Press large print diverse voices. TXJOU