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I learned so much about the Cuban Revolution and what it was like for those people who stayed in Cuba and for those who managed to get out. It opened my heart and my understanding for what it was like in the past, what it is like now, and how someone can be duped by a charismatic politician and then trapped by the mayhem and chaos that ensues. The writing was excellent, and I now follow Ana Hebra Flaster on Substack because she writes regularly about what is happening now in Cuba.
“. . . filled with wisdom, history, joy . . . I wanted to sit with the viejos and all the love and chaos in their multi-generational home and hold on to Abuela and her stories forever.”—Marjan Kamali, USA Today best-selling author of The Lion Women of Tehran and The Stationery Shop
In this sweeping, historical, yet intimate memoir, the author details her family’s transformation from pro-Castro revolutionaries in a scrappy Havana barrio to refugees in a New Hampshire mill town—a timeless and timely tale of loss and reinvention.
Ana Hebra Flaster was six years old when her working-class…
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
As a parent of two children with medical situations, and as a writer attempting to share the experiences of my daughters, I found this book to be the most gorgeous, fun, and enjoyable work of heart from a mother/daughter team. Although it dealt with a heavy and difficult experience, the book felt light and fun too, which is an impressive balance to achieve.
Includes 8 pages of full colour photos, in print for the first time!
When she was just a tiny baby, something terrible happened to Lexi. It left her with an out-of-control body and without a voice. Now, as a precocious, superhero-obsessed thirteen-year-old, Lexi is counting down the final 24 hours to a risky brain surgery that might help her talk or-dare she dream it?-to walk and use her hands.
As surgery grows closer, Lexi finds an urgent, relentless need to share the story of the year in her life she calls The Year of the Buttered Cat. That year, on…
