The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel Ages 6 and up the death of a mother

the death of a mother

His mom calls where they live an apartment building

and ends up tucked into the corner of a street once called The Bloody Angle

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood

Carrying the consequences of her infidelity

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love: A Novel Ages 6 and up the death of a motherFrom FSG Classics, a special twenty fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prizewinning novel It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their