The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien | The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien

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Author: Oscar Hijuelos
First Published: 1993
Type of Plot: Family
Time of Work: The twentieth century
Setting: Pennsylvania, Cuba, New York, California, and Alaska
Principal Characters: Emilio Montez O’Brien, Margarita Montez O’Brien, Nelson O’Brien, Katherine Anne (Kate) O’Brien, Mariela Montez O’Brien, Gloria Montez O’Brien, Isabel Montez O’Brien, Maria Montez O’Brien, Lester Thompson, Betsy MacFarland, Jessica Brooks, Leslie Howard
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: Family or family life
Locales: California

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien opens with a chart of those sisters and of Emilio in order of their dates of birth. Their story, though, begins with the migration to the United States of Nelson O’Brien, a young Irish photographer, and his sister Kate. When Kate dies of pneumonia soon after they settle in bucolic Cobbleton, Pennsylvania, a despondent Nelson goes off to Cuba to cover the Spanish-American War. In Santiago, Cuba, he meets and marries Mariela Montez and begins the large and lively family whose experiences are the subject of Oscar...

The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien | The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien

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