diyhwa.blogg.se - When we left cuba book review

I made a promise to myself to make time for When We Left Cuba in January, and it is easy to say that I had superhigh expectations for this story about Beatriz. My first experience with Chanel Cleeton‘s books, Next Year In Havana, completely blew me away last year and it ended up being one of my absolute favorites of 2019. “The only way to stop being afraid of something is to confront it. Time for another round of Yvo’s Shorties! This time two 2019 titles I’ve been looking forward to… When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton turned out to be just as good as I hoped, but sadly Lock Every Door by Riley Sager took the wrong direction for me and the ending highly disappointed me.

2023 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge.

2017 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge.

The older generations have really worked hard to pass as much on so we can keep it alive for them, and working on this book has definitely given me a renewed desire to do that and to pass it on to my children. At the same time, there's also a tremendous sense of pride in Cuban families where they don't want distance to exist. I've heard the stories and I've certainly seen my family's pain and their anger about the current situation, but It's a little bit removed for me just because I haven't lived through it. With me being born in the U.S., there's a little bit of a distance. They had their property seized, and it's a very personal connection for them.

My father and my grandparents lived through these things. I felt a closeness to her character, and a lot of the self-exploration that she goes through was somewhat the self-exploration I went through when I was working on the book.

I definitely think a lot of my feelings about my Cuban identity are mirrored by some of the feelings Marisol expresses in Next Year in Havana.