National Book Award Non Fiction Winner
Waiting for Snow in Havana
by Carlos Eire
Summary
A memoir of a lost childhood in pre-revolutionary Cuba and the author's eventual exile to the United States as part of the "Peter Pan" airlift.
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Historical Context & Significance
Eire wrote the book in a state of "nostalgic fury," recreating the smells, sounds, and colors of a country he was forced to leave forever at age eleven.