The Goodbye Land Author:Jose Yglesis From the front cover inside flap: "The story of an American's search for his past has never been so poignantly told as in this book. Jose Yglessias grew up in the Latin section of Tampa, Florida, with the memory of his father as a man who had returned in illness to die in his native province of Galicia, in the north of Spain. Forty years later,... more » still puzzled by many of the unexplained circumstances of his father's death, Yglesias, now a New York-based writer, decides to take his faimly on a trip to Spain. They leave in the summer of 1965, promising his mother that they will visit Galicia to determine, from whatever scant evidence might still remain so many years later, the details of his father's final months. ...."« less