CARGO FOR JENNIFER

by Marjorie Vetter ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Marjorie Vetter's first novel for the teen age (she has long been editor of The American Girl and a familiar short story writer) is written about Cuba's impact on 17 year old Jennifer Calderon of New York. Child of a marriage her Cuban father's family had disapproved of, Jen is as surprised as her sick mother when the invitation comes from her paternal grandmother to spend a year on the Calderon sugar plantation near Havana. Because her mother needs a rest out west, Jen goes. But the concurrent cultural and personal difficulties almost outweigh the benefits for a time- as Jen senses hostility in her cousin Antonia, as Aunt Rita disapproves of her dating an American boy, Steve, as Antonia's brother Miguel is embroiled in a student plot against the government. Steadily learning as she goes, Jen makes her mark on the family as they make theirs on her, and new understandings about different ways of life are interestingly if melodramatically achieved. Tinged with career-romance as well, this is good young fare.

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1954

Categories: FICTION