{"id":3940,"date":"2015-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-blog.cah.ucf.edu\/2015\/01\/20\/the-guardian-features-new-book-by-milan-s\/"},"modified":"2015-01-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T00:00:00","slug":"the-guardian-features-new-book-by-milan-s","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/news\/the-guardian-features-new-book-by-milan-s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian Features New Book by Milan\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book by Cecilia Rodr\u00edguez Milan\u00e9s has been called a &#8220;must read&#8221; by <em>The Guardian<\/em>, one of the world&#8217;s most widely-read newspapers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Oye, What I\u2019m Gonna Tell You<\/em> is a collection of short stories chronicling the lives of Cuban Americans from WWII-era Havana to contemporary times in &#8220;el norte.&#8221; Whether they inhabit blue collar neighborhoods in the Northeast, the increasingly Latino-populated South, or Florida, the characters that populate this book\u2014many of whom are the children and grandchildren of exiles, who have been raised in traditional Cuban homes but whose only homeland has been the United States\u2014must decide what to take and what to leave from their upbringing.<\/p>\n<p>Milan\u00e9s was born in New Jersey to Cuban parents. 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