The Family Mystery That Inspired the Novel (part 2)
In 2017, my aunt contacted a man who appeared as a second cousin on Ancestry.com. To our surprise, he replied that he’d heard rumors that his great-grandmother, Carmen, had abandoned a baby girl named Mirta in a Havana hospital in the early 20s.
The Family Mystery That Inspired the Novel (part 1)
My grandmother Mirta longed to know who she was and where she came from. She died in 2008 at 85 years old, never knowing who her mother was.