El manana
Memorias de un exodo cubano

There was so, so much I didn’t know about Cuba. Considering that the country is only ninety miles away and intricately tied in many historically significant ways to the U.S., this book really should be required reading in our schools. As a thirteen-year-old in 1980 I had vaguely heard of a lot of boa......more

Mirta Ojito takes her own story and mixes it in with others, such as Hector Sanyustiz, the man that crashed a bus thru the Peruvian embassy in 1980 under fire by Cuban guards. During one of his tantrums when Peru refused to turn over the escaped exiles, Castro removed his Cuban guards and within a d......more

I LOVED this book. Cuba fascinates me, and this memoir gave such a vivid depiction of daily life in Cuba during childhood. She alternates chapters-- one about her life and her family and their exodus from Cuba with the Mariel boat lift in the early 80's, and then another that gives the historical an......more

A very-well researched book that shifts in and out of personal memoir of the 1980 "Mariel boat lift" by a journalist who experienced it as a teenager with her family from Havana. Ojito has been a reporter for the Miami Herald and NY Times and was the perfect person to write this history/ memoir. I g......more

Life was not always easy for the current New York Times journalist, in fact in this memoir she goes into the depth of her family’s struggle removing themselves from Cuba at the peak of its communist take over. She speaks of the hot summers where she played in the streets with her friends, her first......more