The Other Side of Paradise: Life in the New Cuba
By Julia Cooke.
Description
Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa.This last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning ...
ISBN(s)
1580055311, 9781580055314
