Reina and Constancia Agü ero are Cuban sisters who have been estranged
for thirty years. Reina--tall, darkly beautiful, and magnetically
sexual--still lives in her homeland. Once a devoted daughter of la
revolució n, she now basks in the glow of her many admiring suitors,
believing only in what she can grasp with her five senses. The pale and
very petite Constancia lives in the United States, a beauty expert who
sees miracles and portents wherever she looks. After she and her husband
retire to Miami, she becomes haunted by the memory of her parents and
the unexplained death of her beloved mother so long ago.
Told in the stirring voices of their parents, their daughters, and
themselves, The Agü ero Sisters tells a mesmerizing story about the
power of myth to mask, transform, and finally, reveal the truth--as two
women move toward an uncertain, long awaited reunion.