Description
For fans of Chanel Cleetons Next Year in Havana, a real-life story of how a young womans five-day trip to Cuba, her mothers birthplace, completely changed her view of herself as a second-generation American.
When Barbara Caver was growing up in South Carolina, her Cuban roots were as mysterious as the embargoed island her mother had been born on but left in 1959. For Barbara, Cuba represented a heritage that shed never understood and couldnt fully embrace. When she moved from South Carolina to New York, the vibrant diversity of the city and new friendships with other Cuban Americans made her curious about her mothers home country. Finally, in 2017, she traveled to Cuba.
Immediately upon arriving in Havana, Barbara was struck by a sense of the familiar: tiles on a backsplash looked like tiles in her grandparents home, the airport smelled like a childhood memory, local dishes tasted like her grandmothers cooking, and a morning stroll through Vedado delivered her to the front gate of her great-grandmothers homedespite the fact that she didnt have the address. She wasnt just visiting a foreign country; she was being welcomed home.
Part travel adventure, part ghost story, and part memoir, A Little Piece of Cuba: A Journey To Become Cubana-Americanais an imaginative and humorous personal journey through Barbaras memories and experiences as she discovers that she is and has always been more Cuban than she thought.
Author: Barbara Caver
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 12/02/2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.44w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9798896360148
Language: English
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