Inspector Ramirez travels to Ottawa to apprehend a Cuban priest in possession of child pornography and untangles a web of deceit that extends to the Vatican and reveals a killer.

Young Everly Lederer and K.C. Stites come of age in Oriente Province, where the Americans tend their own fiefdom-three hundred thousand acres of United Fruit Company sugarcane that surround their gated enclave. If the rural tropics are a child's dreamworld, Everly and K.C. nevertheless have keen eyes for the indulgences and betrayals of the grown-ups around them-the mordant drinking and illicit loves, the race hierarchies and violence. In Havana,...

A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.