The Firefly Letters by Margarita Engle

"I remember a wide river

and gray parrots with patches of red feathers
flashing across the African sky
like traveling stars
or Cuban Fireflies."

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Summary: Draws on little-known Cuban history to tell a stirring story in poetry. Based on the diaries and letters of Swedish suffragist Fredrika Bremer, who spent three months in Cuba in 1851, the story focuses on oppressed women, the privileged as well as the enslaved, in three alternating free-verse narratives.

Publisher: Henry Holt; 151 pages