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Relics of the Heart: Stories of My Family is an exciting journey through the memories and experiences of Oscar Fuentes' family. In this book, Fuentes masterfully weaves real and emotional stories that capture the essence of family life and the importance of the emotional ties that unite us. From the simplest and most significant moments, such as sharing a meal, celebrating a birth, or enjoying a vacation, to the complexities of facing Alzheimer's disease, Relics of the Heart invites us to reflect on the value of family as the basis of society.

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"Praise for Relics of the Heart: Stories of My Family ""Having read these simple and well-told stories by Oscar Fuentes, with real-life experiences, he focuses on the life that most of the population has. Activities as simple as getting together to eat, celebrating a birth, or going on vacation are very important moments for daily happiness, in the existence of this long road we call a fulfilled year, on which we are cementing the concept of family. The family is not only a group of people; it is something more important. The family is the basis of society, in which we should be grateful to our grandparents, to our parents, for the principles and values with which they raised us and we should act with the obligation to transmit them to future generations. This is what this book teaches us and reminds us that we should always be better people.."" - Manuel G�mez ""Relics of the Heart is a must-read for these times when time is scarce. So, then? Well, we must make space for its necessary reading. A space that will not take much time, since Relics of the Heart is so delicious that it is devoured and, at the same time, lingering on the palate after reading it. Racing against the clock of life, Oscar Fuentes has hurried to collect anecdotes of his father, stories and memories before the old man leaves, and with him, his story. And so, we are faced with a family album, one of those that keep the photos of our celebrations, great events and happy moments. Relics of the Heart is that album, an archive of his family as only the poet of Miami's Biscayne Bay, The Biscayne Poet, can achieve. A trip to the past, to a sunny afternoon at the grandparents' house in the San Cristobal neighborhood of Honduras. A cockfight in Siguatepeque. The smell of chicken soup with coconut milk. A ship full of Honduran coffee. And Manhattan. His Manhattan, birthplace of the author. Fuentes tells us all about it. The tears and the sweat. The laughter and the happiness. The ups and downs. All the results of living. Relics of the Heart is a Latin-American and at the same time, universal, story. We identify with it. The author has given us a great gift with this book. This is a gift that comes from the heart. With it, he invites us to remember our roots and reflect on them because time is short. Because, as the author has well known, to know how we got to where we are and why we are the way we are, we have to go back to who and where we came from."" - Miguel Garrote ""With Relics of the Heart, Oscar transports us back in time with delicacy, letting us feel the legacy of his family's stories with poetic nostalgia. Pages that describe a world of dense memories of life, give value to the union of family affections that he narrates with grace and detail."" - Claudio Marcotulli ""Oscar takes us to the sweet and luminous land of childhood, to the warmth of home, to unconditional love. We travel with him as spectators of the anecdotes of a family united by love, encounters, and misunderstandings, from his grandparents to his parents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and brothers. The strength and love of the women in his family are clearly delineated and weave that family union that is the engine to move forward despite the difficulties and complexities of life. In Grandma Fina, I found traces of my own grandmother and nostalgically returned to her warm lap where I always felt safe. These little stories have the virtue of bringing us back to the happy moments of our lives. The stories are not foreign to the cultural environment and ""Cockfighting"" stands out among them, a tradition that touches all of us Latin Americans and that is as picturesque as it is real."" - Claudia Solis"

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