Essays address the novelist's relationship with her children, her grief over her husband's fatal heart attack, her religious experiences as a Catholic who married a Jew, and memories of her childhood.

Product Description: Alma Flor Ada grew up in Cuba, moving to the United States as a college student. She is the author of over two hundred books for children, many of them in both English and Spanish. ALMA FLOR ADA: AN AUTHOR KIDS LOVE is based on an interview with Alma Flor Ada by Michelle Parker-Rock...read more

The author of Be Pretty, Get Married, and Always Drink TaB presents a series of ten vignettes through which she relates her dual obsessions with clothing and men, in a humorous account that describes her simultaneous pursuits of Mr. Right and idealized fashion accessories. 75,000 first printing.

Distinguished poet and teacher Olga Korman's memoir of exile to the United States in the latter half of the 20th century. Describes her flight from Cuba amid political turmoil, her struggle for a new life in a foreign country, and an eventful return visit to Cuba some 37 years later. Depicts scenes of revolution in Cuba, of the student rebellion at Harvard University and of social upheaval in the United States during the 1960s. Shows the fight of Hispanic peoples for social and political recognition in Buffalo, N.Y., where she has taught Spanish language and literature for the last 20 years.

The personal story of a Jewish Cuban-American woman describes the Russian and Lithuanian heritages of her immigrant grandparents, her family's struggles to adapt within America while retaining links to their Cuban and Jewish origins, and the author's own experiences of embracing multiple cultures. 30,000 first printing.

A New York Times reporter recounts her childhood in Cuba before the events of the Mariel boatlift rendered her a teenage refugee in Miami, describing the Cuban revolution, the beliefs about el norte that prompted her family's immigration, and her prize-winning journalism career. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: In this moving account of the Cuban Revolution and its aftermath, eleven women who lived through it as children or young adults recall the events of the last forty years. In Torres's words, "This book, which began in Miami, looking toward the island, ends on the island as it gazes toward the exile community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An author and photographer recalls her long exile's journey from the shores of Cuba to American citizen in this poignant, sometimes heartbreaking memoir of the Cuban-American experience. (Biography) (view table of contents)

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