Which excerpt from ”first generation” of dreaming in cuban is the best example of magic realism?
the family split up and minnie was raised by a grandmother who can quote the bible chapter and verse and drives a beat-up cadillac with a cb radio in it.
we camped out under a sapodilla tree and listened to the pygmy owls with their old women’s voices.
four blocks from her home, lourdes smells her father’s cigar behind a catalpa tree. “mi hija, have you forgotten me? ” jorge del pino chides gently.
she combs her daughter’s room for the jimi hendrix poster she made her take down and tacks it back on the wall.