Tula fights for freedom and education for herself, and ultimately for women, slaves, and dissenters, in a poetic story of nineteenth - century
Cuban abolitionist and writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.
Told in multiple voices, Engle's richly metaphorical novel - in - verse is a fictionalized biography of the nineteenth - century
Cuban abolitionist poet Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, known as Tula.