{"product_id":"cages","title":"Cages","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTHIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER ONLY. PLEASE PLACE PREORDERS AS SEPARATE ORDERS FROM ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE FULFILLED IMMEDIATELY. ITEMS ORDERED WITH PREORDER BOOKS WILL BE HELD UNTIL THE PREORDER IS AVAILABLE FOR FULFILLMENT. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAVAILABLE JUNE 09, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy: Chantel Acevedo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sweeping, choral portrait of a man as seen through the eyes of those who loved him, feared him, and were betrayed by him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the story of Felix—a zookeeper in Cuba during the time of the missile crisis, an exile in swinging sixties London, and finally a dying man in 1980s AIDS-era Miami. In this daring novel, Acevedo’s most personal and heartfelt to date, the fragments of Felix’s story are put together like pieces of a puzzle by one knew him mostly as an absence. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCuba, 1963. Felix risks everything for an illicit love affair with a co-worker. In a society where homosexuality is branded “counterrevolutionary,” their tenderness unfolds in the shadow of danger, treachery, and political oppression. In London, Felix and his wife Anabel navigate exile and reinvention, while an aspiring actress named Claudia finds herself drawn into their orbit, her ambitions and desires colliding with Felix’s own hunger for connection. Years later, Virgilio—Anabel’s devoted brother—recounts the disintegration of Felix’s marriage and his decision to step in and protect the family Felix abandoned. From Anabel, long silent about her complicity in the events that forced Felix’s flight from Cuba, to Rita, the daughter born out of wedlock, each vivid character gives us a different version of Felix, and the result is a dazzling mosaic of longing, deception, survival, and reconciliation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning Havana, London, and Miami over a thirty-year arc,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCages\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores exile, forbidden love, fractured families, the nature of truth, and the stories we tell to make sense of the people we cannot forget. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47848301887639,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/0349\/4039\/files\/9798889661900_dede3.jpg?v=1779908693","url":"https:\/\/littledistrictbooks.com\/products\/cages","provider":"Little District Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}