Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano's Coming-of-age in AmericaFirmat discusses his life as a boy born in Cuba but raised in America, in an exiled family living in the constant expectation of Castro's fall--a situation that caused conflicting emotions that he had to deal with in his later years. |
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The Past Is a Foreign Country 3280 | 3 |
A Crash Course in Americana | 27 |
Mooning over Miami | 39 |
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