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.