Alternating between Elisa's truncated affair with a revolutionary comrade and Marisol's search to understand her family's forcibly abandoned heritage, romance novelist Cleeton ( On Broken Wings) alchemizes her own family's Cuban exodus into historical fiction. Kyla Garcia relies on her notably adjustable range to channel seamlessly Marisol's tenacious quest and vulnerable discoveries. Frankie Maria Corzo imbues Elisa with steely determination, even as her family faces destruction, and even death. Romance leavened with a sizable measure of. Next Year In Havana is an extraordinary journey that connects the past and present and will enthrall readers until the very end. Elisa's childhood best friend Ana-who still lives next door to the former Perez mansion-warmly welcomes Marisol to Havana, presenting her with Elisa's box of long-buried secrets, prompting an inevitable collision of past and present. ( Starred review) A poignant tale of aristocracy, subterfuge, tyranny, conflict, corruption and courage during the Cuban Revolution. Almost 60 years later, Marisol Ferrara arrives in Cuba bearing Elisa's ashes in fulfillment of her grandmother's final wish to return home. So 19-year-old Elisa Perez leaves Cuba with her three sisters and their parents. In 1959 Havana, as Fidel Castro claims absolute power, the sugar-rich Perez family's vast wealth marks them as targets, necessitating their escape to Miami, FL.
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