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    The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien

    By Oscar Hijuelos

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    With “soaring, matchless prose,” a Pulitzer Prize winner pens a New York Times–bestselling saga of a family of Irish-Cuban immigrants (Publishers Weekly).
     
    In The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Oscar Hijuelos brings to life the rambunctious Montez O’Brien family. In a small Pennsylvania town, Nelson O’Brien runs the Jewel Box Movie Theater, raising fourteen daughters and a son with his poet wife, Mariela Montez. Through the eyes of Margarita, the eldest daughter, the lives, loves and tragedies of the Montez O’Briens unfold.
     
    While reflecting on the life of Emilio, her doggedly masculine brother, Margarita also ruminates on the nature of femininity, family, sex, love, and earthly happiness. Her musings recall exhilarating adventures, eliciting tears and laughter, and tenderly reveal the bounteous heart of a warm, passionate family.
     
    At once lush, erotic, and gorgeously written, The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien is a masterwork by one of America’s greatest writers.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 14, 2014
    ISBN9780795337567
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    Oscar Hijuelos

    Oscar Hijuelos (1951–2013) was a first-generation Cuban American and the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. He wrote several novels, including Dark Dude and A Simple Habana Melody. 

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    • 5/5
      I believe I have now read all of Hijuelos' books and this one didn't disappoint. Although the oldest sister is the focal point of the story, the reader really gets to know the entire family -- each girl with her strengths, weaknesses, dreams, disappointments, and triumphs, and then there is Emilio surrounded by all those women in his life. The writing is so readable; the words just seem to "paint" a picture of this remarkable yet so ordinary family.The book covers time from the turn of the century into the 1970's from Cuba, Ireland, and the US. The plot is an ongoing saga with no great twists and turns although as in real life, surprises do occur. The culture of US and Cuba is a realistic backdrop. Overall, great story about a great family -- but one not much different than any families we might know (of course, 15 children is a bit rare today).The writing in this book just pulls you in; it's not a "page turner" of excitment. Rather it is a slow addiction.
    • 3/5
      Read this in 2007. Memory dims about some of the specifics of the family story.
      I know that I liked it and it was quite long, but was disappointed for it to end.
      I would read it again.
      Read in 2007.
    • 5/5
      this is a beautiful tribute to a successful 20th century family. each sibling has her own personality; still, most manage to gravitate toward one ortwo to whom they feel closest.