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Let's go to the show. In the year,

7 after the Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean,

a devastating hurricane hit the coast of South Florida in Key West

at the very end of the peninsula.

A ship coming from Spain carrying immigrants sank during that storm.

But unlike the Titanic, very little was reported about this tragedy for nearly a century.

Although there was a book written about it. And 20 years ago, Cuban-American

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Milta Ohito, found that book during a visit to Key West.

And for about 30 seconds, I thought, oh my God, I should write about this, possibly as a nonfiction book, because this is

the poor man's Titanic, and no one has heard of this ship. The poor man's Titanic, Mita, a renowned

journalist, who used to write for the New York Times, didn't want to write a book that would

simply translate what others had put together in Spanish about that shipwreck. I, didn't want to write a book that would simply translate what others had put together

in Spanish about that shipwreck.

I just didn't have the kind of time that nonfiction requires, you know, the amount of reporting,

you have to be so careful, everything has to be absolutely true.

And then I thought, it'll have to be a novel.

And when she read that book, she also had a sort of vision.

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