Couldn't stand the narrator's voice for the audio book. I might retry later if I can get my hands on a hardcopy.
I really enjoyed reading this story. I think because I'm half Cuban, I enjoyed it for similar memories that have been recited to me so often by my father(he also came to Miami from Cuba in 1962 with the 14,000 other children during this time). Carlos Eire's telling of his childhood in Cuba is so v...
The world changed while I slept, and much to my surprise, no one had consulted me. That's how it would always be from that day forward. Of course, that's the way it had been all along, I just didn't know it until that morning. Surprise upon surprise: some good, some evil, most somewhere in between. ...
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