![]() It’s not long before she becomes embroiled in various plots to end Castro’s regime. So she approaches the CIA, assuming that the agency is desperate to take down Castro, and offers her services as a spy. As she gets older, she grapples with how to fight for her home country while simultaneously figuring out who she is without it. How do I turn my back on that?” she argues. He died fighting for a better future for Cuba. It’s 1959, and the plucky, rebellious 22-year-old is outraged her family was forced to uproot from her beloved Cuba and move to Florida because of Fidel Castro. The perspective in “When We Left Cuba” shifts from Elisa Perez to her older sister Beatriz. Its sequel “When We Left Cuba” delivers some of the same – including plenty of heartache – with a very different narrative. ![]() The novel balanced a lesson in Cuba’s volatile history with an emotionally affecting story. Chanel Cleeton’s “Next Year in Havana” got a huge boost when Reese Witherspoon selected it for her book club in 2018, and it was rightfully singled out. ![]()
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