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Mar\u00eda del Carmen Boza, author of Scattering the Ashes<\/em>, an account of the Cuban exile experience, will read selections from her acclaimed memoir at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, in the Special Collections room of Ladd Library. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n

Boza and her parents left Cuba for Miami in 1960, when she was 8 years old, after the Havana newspaper where her father was a senior editor was closed by the Castro government. Scattering the Ashes<\/em>, (Bilingual Press, Arizona State University, 1998) the product of what Boza calls her quest to understand the reasons for her father’s suicide, is a book about Cuba and the power of history and politics over Cubans’ daily lives.<\/p>\n

He “loved Cuba above all other things, animate or inanimate, real or imagined, remembered or forgotten,” wrote Boza of her father, Ramiro Boza, an ardent anti-Communist, who, discouraged, ill and depressed, shot himself in 1989.<\/p>\n

As Boza watched aging, misunderstood Cuban exiles parade past the coffin at her father’s Miami wake, she became committed to exploring the reasons behind their single-minded devotion to Cuba, their restlessness even in a comfortable land of safety and their bitterness about their fate at the hands of both Castro’s government and U.S. administrations.<\/p>\n

“This father-haunted Cuban memoir is absolutely mesmerizing,” wrote Howard Norman, author of the acclaimed novels The Bird Artist<\/em> and The Museum Guard<\/em>. “Scattering the Ashes<\/em> immediately enters the most rarified, intimate room of posterity. Boza’s writing has unmitigated integrity, beauty, courage and passion.”<\/p>\n

A Lewiston resident, Boza co-edited the anthology Nosotras: Latina Literature Today<\/em> and wrote Questions from a Foreigner<\/em>, which was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Boza, a tutor in the Writing Workshop at Bates College, graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Barnard College and received an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Maryland at College Park. She is a member of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.<\/p>\n

Boza’s talk is part of the semester-long Readings with Bates Authors series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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