This is the story of Fredricka, Cecelia and Elena. It's based on the true story of a Swedish suffragist Fredricka Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba back in 1851. It is told in a a prose format, each chapter focuses on one of the three characters. Fredricka remembers what it was like growing up in Sweden, Cecelia remembers being taken from her home and brought to Cuba to be a slave, yet she has also been assigned as Fredricka's translator. Elena is the daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, whom owns Cecelia. Due to the prose format this was a very quick read and you were still able to connect with the characters based on the beautiful language used in the poems. In the end you find out that this book was written based on diaries and letters that Fredricka kept on her travels and that Cecelia was real, but the Elena character was created to add the sense of sacrifice to the story.
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