DIVINING EMILY

Part One

Heidi-Marie Blackwell

 

7 x 10 paperback, full color

308 pages

302 color images

 

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Trunks and cases arrived at Blackwell Studios from my parents' basement, instantly filling the place with a charming musk of an earlier age, waiting. It beckoned from across the room as I worked at my computer. I was no longer able to concentrate on my work as my eyes shifted continually to the trunks and a growing desire to know more about the people who had contributed to the contents of these trunks finally got me out of my chair. Simultaneous to the trunks arriving, it was the day of the lunar eclipse when I met with an old acquaintance who mysteriously told me I must write. The following day I transcribed a letter in which my grandfather writes to his mother. Seeing the name Emily focused me on finding only her things in the trunks. Most intriguing of all —one case contained deeds to property in Cuba. I sort the family documents, flesh out my family tree, write letters to archives, and discover and visit cousins I never knew I had. But no one knows anything about Cuba. I was convinced there was a mission and that Emily had handed me an ethereal road map to her legacy she intended for me. A librarian suggested a book, the only history of La Gloria City, about a North American colony in Camagüey, Cuba established in 1900. Seeing that Emily was mentioned by name three times in this book, I contacted the author, Cuban historian, Enrique Cirules, and learned he had, nearly fifty years ago, collected several legends of Emily, yet unpublished. Together, we may have the whole story.

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