![]() ![]() Yet the “only thing worth trusting” is love, concludes her granddaughter Marisol, the other female narrator, hers the voice of Cuba’s complicated political present. “No one warned me love would hurt so much,” says nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez, voice of Cuba’s complicated political past. The novel humanizes brave men risking their lives for their homeland and the strong women who fell in love with them at great peril and sacrifice. It arrives at a time when Americans love for country – standing up for democracy – is sorely being tested. Love of country and family is pitted against impassioned love in a country with a long history of loss of freedoms. ![]() Cuban profiles in courage, sacrifice, and hope (Havana, alternating between 1958-19): Next Year in Havana is a novel consumed with politics, romance, and familial devotion. ![]()
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