The Importance of Glassware

"This is the poem that I think made my father the most uncomfortable well why don't you read it and then we can talk a little bit about that," she says. "I was barefoot when glass appeared on the floor this time most times rage to keep it company when no one apologizes", he writes. The author's mother lives alone with her husband in Miami, while his father has some days himself for when they are hurt by their parents' stories. She describes how students worked the sugar cane fields of Cuba after Fidel Castro took over as president in 1959.