Sabotage of the Sunflowers

Abstract

Sabotage of the Sunflowers is a creative collection of writings inspired by my family’s immigration from Cuba to the United States. These stories come from memories, retellings, interviews, and my own imagination. They include some facts, some embellishments, and some fiction. The stories are told in various forms: prose, poetry, first-person narrative, and reworked transcripts taken from many hours of family interviews. These transcripts-turned-narratives remain fairly close to their original form and make up the majority of this thesis.