I love books written in multiple voices from different time periods, where the stories all connect in the end. The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes, written by Chanel Cleeton is that style of novel.
Taking the reader back to 1900 Cuba we meet Eva Fuentes, a young school teacher living through the revolution in Cuba as the country frees itself from Spain's rule. As Cuba becomes involved with the United States a group a school teachers are sent to Harvard for a summer of learning and community building. A showing of goodwill between the two countries. Eva is among the group spending her first summer away from Havana. She meets a young man and the reader follows her experiences that summer. When she returns to Cuba she writes and publishes a book.
Next we are introduced to Pilar Castillo, a librarian living in Havana in the 1960s as Fidel Castro is coming to power. She is a newly married woman whose husband has recently been imprisoned for subversive activity by the regime. She finds a way to fill her days and make a difference by reading and saving books. Pilar is asked by her neighbor ,who is fleeing the country, to hold onto and return a book to her friend.
Finally in 2024, in London, the reader meets Margo Reynolds, a young woman who has started her own company finding lost and rare items for people. Mostly art and artifacts, it gives her a good feeling to see people reunited with their possessions or family heirlooms. Her most current client has asked her to find a very rare and long lost book. Reconnecting with her ex husband to work on this case of finding the book, Margo and Luke also can reexamine their relationship.
A quick entertaining interesting plot and some interesting history of Cuba and the rise of Fidel Castro.
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