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The Sweetness in the Lime Paperback – 5 Oct. 2020

by Stephen Kimber (Author)

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A clever love story set between Cuba, Miami, and Halifax, exploring the complexities of love at middle-age.

Eli Cooper is a resolutely single, fiftysomething newspaper copy editor. He spends his nights obsessing over reporters' unnecessary thats and his days caring for a demented father he knows should be in twenty-four-hour care. Eli is too busy--and too self-absorbed--to acknowledge what's missing in his life. But then, on a single day in February 2008, Eli loses his job and his father. Alone and adrift, he begrudgingly accepts his sister's gift: a two-week forget-it-all vacation to Cuba. After a series of misadventures, he meets Mariela--an off-the-books, thirtysomething tour guide--and falls in love. But does Mariela fall for Eli, or is he just her ticket to a new life? Eli and Mariela each have secrets they're not ready to share--until they have no choice.

A bittersweet story that takes readers from Havana, to Halifax, to Miami, and back again, The Sweetness in the Lime is a charming, clever novel that peels back the rind to discover there really is sweetness in the lime of life.

Print length

272 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Vagrant Press
Publication date

5 Oct. 2020
ISBN-10

177108913X
ISBN-13

978-1771089135
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Publisher : Vagrant Press (5 Oct. 2020)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 177108913X
ISBN-13 : 978-1771089135

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Part love story, part mystery, this engrossing tale of Cuban-Canadian connections avoids clichés and gets to the heart of what can happen when we cross borders. --Karen Dubinsky, author of Cuba Beyond the Beach: Stories of Life in Havana

About the Author

Stephen Kimber, an award-winning writer, editor, and broadcaster, is the author of 10 books, including two novels and eight works of nonfiction. His most recent nonfiction book--What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five--was long-listed for the Canadian Booksellers Association's Libris Award as Nonfiction Book of the Year, won the 2014 Evelyn Richardson Award for Nonfiction, and the Cuban Institute of the Book's 2016 Reader's Choice Award. A journalist for 50 years, he is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax and co-founder of the King's MFA in Creative Nonfiction program.

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