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The Last Train to Key West

by Chanel Cleeton

Three lives converge in the Florida Keys as a hurricane approaches

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    Instant New York Times bestseller

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    One of Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020

    Named one of Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020.

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Three lives converge in the Florida Keys as a hurricane approaches

Set during Labor Day weekend in 1935, the novel brings together three women whose circumstances reflect different pressures of the era. Key West native Helen Berner longs to leave; Mirta Perez arrives on her honeymoon after an arranged marriage shaped by her family’s precarious position in Cuba; and Elizabeth Preston seeks a way to help her family recover from the Wall Street crash. Their stories intersect amid the Depression-era Keys, where tourists travel the Overseas Railroad and veterans live in camps. As the women’s personal challenges unfold, a powerful hurricane bears down on the islands, linking the book’s intimate conflicts with a historical disaster.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in historical fiction set in the Florida Keys during the 1930s.
  • Readers who enjoy narratives centered on several women whose paths intersect.
  • Readers interested in stories that combine personal and family pressures with a major historical event.

Themes

Women’s lives and choicesEconomic hardshipMarriage and family obligationsThe 1935 Florida Keys hurricaneInterconnected lives

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Book overview

Instant New York Times bestseller

One of Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020

"The perfect riveting summer read!"--BookBub

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels toward the Florida Keys.


For the tourists traveling on Henry Flagler's legendary Overseas Railroad, Labor Day weekend is an opportunity to forget the economic depression gripping the nation. But one person's paradise can be another's prison, and Key West-native Helen Berner yearns to escape.

After the Cuban Revolution of 1933 leaves Mirta Perez's family in a precarious position, she agrees to an arranged marriage with a notorious American. Following her wedding in Havana, Mirta arrives in the Keys on her honeymoon. While she can't deny the growing attraction to her new husband, his illicit business interests may threaten not only her relationship, but her life.

Elizabeth Preston's trip to Key West is a chance to save her once-wealthy family from their troubles after the Wall Street crash. Her quest takes her to the camps occupied by veterans of the Great War and pairs her with an unlikely ally on a treacherous hunt of his own.

Over the course of the holiday weekend, the women's paths cross unexpectedly, and the danger swirling around them is matched only by the terrifying force of the deadly storm threatening the Keys.
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