![]() Upon graduation in 2022, Bardenwerper will be moving to Miami with his wife and daughter. It was from Sepphoris that the Crusaders rode out in 1187 for their defeat by the Muslim sultan Saladin at the Horns of Hattin, overlooking the Sea of. After being medically retired for Type 1 diabetes in 2018, Bardenwerper began a joint degree program at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. ![]() He participated in humanitarian and law enforcement missions from the Gulf of Maine to the Caribbean Basin. Thomas “Buddy” Bardenwerper served five years in the US Coast Guard aboard cutters homeported in Maine and Puerto Rico. On a moonless night, two armed vessels converge in the Mona Passage, and three lives change forever. Will he remain true to his oath, as his older brother had done in Iraq? Or will he risk his own future-and perhaps his freedom-for his closest friend? Knowing that his cutter may be all that separates Galán and Gabriela-and haunted by the human suffering he has witnessed at sea-Pat must decide. Aware of the dangers but determined for Gabriela to live a full life, Galán hands over all the money he has to a Dominican smuggler based out of a San Juan nightclub, and Gabriela begins her terrifying journey. Pat, whose Coast Guard cutter patrols the Mona Passage for drug traffickers and migrants, warns Galán that such a journey will be treacherous-perhaps fatal. When Galán learns that his sister, Gabriela, is going to be committed to a mental health facility in Cuba, he plans her escape to Puerto Rico. During long evenings spent together talking on their Calle Luna rooftop, a deep friendship develops based on shared traumas and a common desire to heal. Mona Passage is the story of two neighbors in San Juan, Puerto Rico: Galán Betances, a Cuban emigrant, and Pat McAllister, a young Coast Guard officer. Bank Square Books presents an author talk and Q&A with Thomas Bardenwerper for the new book, Mona Passage.
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