Finding Manana: A Memoir Of A Cuban Exodus

Born in Havana and raised there until the unprecedented events of the Mariel boatlift brought her to Miami, the author was the one teenager among more than 100,000 fellow refugees. This is her vibrant memoir of life in Cuba and the wrenching departure.

a"New York Times" reporter Mirta Ojito melds the personal with the political in a moving account of her familyas departure from Cuba.a a"People"
In this unforgettable memoir, Pulitzer Prizeawinning journalist Mirta Ojito travels back twenty-five years to the event that brought her and 125,000 of her fellow Cubans to America: the 1980 mass exodus known as the Mariel boatlift. As she tracks down the long-forgotten individuals whose singular actions that year profoundly affected thousands on both sides of the Florida straits, she offers a mesmerizing glimpse behind Cubaas iron curtainaand recalls the reality of being a sixteen-year-old torn between her familyas thirst for freedom and a revolution that demanded absolute loyalty. Recounting an immensely important chapter in the ever-evolving relationship between America and its neighbor to the south, "Finding MaAana" is a major triumph by one of our finest journalists.
aIn this wonderful memoir, Ojito ransoms herself from the seductions of nostalgia and reclaims instead the beleageured Cuba of her childhood.a
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