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In Conversation: On The Cubans

In Conversation: On The Cubans

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Anthony DePalma, Ruth Behar
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Described by the New York Times as “a remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor,” Anthony DePalma’s The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times is carefully researched volume that delivers a moving portrait of the resiliency and courage of people in Cuba navigating a post-Castro reality. Joining him is his wife, Miriam Rodriguez DePalma, who was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba, where the book takes place. They are speaking with Ruth Behar, author of Letters from Cuba.

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Anthony DePalma

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Anthony DePalma was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times focusing on Latin America for twenty-two years. He continues to write for the newspaper as well as other publications. He wrote The Man Who Invented Fidel and Here: A Biography of the New American Continent. In Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times (Viking), DePalma focuses on life in Guanabacoa, a neighborhood across the harbor from Old Havana to dramatize the optimism as well as the enormous challenges that Cubans, most of whom have lived their entire lives under the Castro regime, now face. It is a snapshot of Cuba with all its contradictions as the new regime opens the gate to the capitalism that Fidel railed against for so long. As people try to navigate their new reality, Cuba has become an old machine kept running with equal measures of ingenuity and desperation. A new kind of revolutionary spirit thrives beneath the conformity of a half century of totalitarian rule. And over all of this looms the United States, with its unpredictable policies. The New York Times called Cubans … “A remarkably revealing glimpse into the world of a muzzled yet irrepressibly ebullient neighbor.”

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Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba, grew up in New York, and has also lived in Spain and Mexico. She is the author of Lucky Broken Girl, and in addition to writing for young people, her work includes poetry, memoir, and the travel books An Island Called Home and Traveling Heavy. She was the first Latina to win a MacArthur “Genius” Grant. Behar is an anthropology professor at the University of Michigan and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The situation is getting dire for Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II. Esther’s father has fled to Cuba, and she is the first one to join him. Letters from Cuba (Nancy Paulsen Books) follows Esther as she promises her beloved sister, left behind, to write down everything that happens until they’re reunited. And she does, recording both the good–the kindness of the Cuban people and her discovery of a valuable hidden talent– and the bad: the fact that Nazism has found a foothold even in Cuba. Her letters are full of her appreciation for life and reveal a resourceful, determined girl with a rare ability to bring people together, all the while striving to get the rest of their family out of Poland before it’s too late. The New York Times Book Review celebrated it as “a quiet story of determination, and an openly loving tribute to the author’s grandmother, who made the real journey that inspired Esther’s fictional one.

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